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PRINCETON SEVENTY-SIX 



1876-1916 



CLASS RECORD NUMBER X 




CLASS RECORD COMMITTEE 



Henry L. Harrison 
William J. Hfnderson 



Edward D. Lyon 
Henry M. Russell 



CLASS OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 

President 
Robert Edwin Bonner 

Vice-President 
Henry E. Davis 

Secretary and Treasurer 
Henry L. Harrison 

Exec u t ive Com m ittee 
Robert E. Bonner Wm. Allen Butler 

Henry E. Davis Henry M. Russell 

Henry L. Harrison Spencer Weart 

Record Committee 
Henry L. Harrison Edward D. Lyon 

William J. Henderson Henry M. Russell 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Class Officers and Committees iii 

Preface . ix 

Personal History 

Gradnates, Academic i 

Graduates, School of Science 205 

Non-Graduate Members, Academic 220 

Non-Graduate Members, School of Science 240 

Supplementary 244 

'76 and The War 248 

Marriages and Births 249 

Necrology 249 

Marriages of Children 252 

Grandchildren 259 

Recapitulation 267 

Commencement Programme June 28, 1876 268 

Class Ode 272 

The Fortieth Anniversary 273 

Treasurer's Report 289 

The Class of '76 Memorial Prize Debate 291 

James W. Alexander '60 293 

The Princeton Faculty of 1876 294 

Dr. Brackett 294 

Professor Cornwall , 295 

Faculty Notes 298 

Karl Langlotz 300 

The Prize Gymnasts of 1870 301 

Universit}' Games and Contests 303 

The Class Roll with Adresses 306 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Governor Jonathan Belcher Frontispiece 

Photographs of Class Members i to 242 

'76"s Oldest Grandchild • 261 

The Reunion of 191 1 275 

'76 on University Field, June 10, 1916 278 

'76 on University Field, June 10, 191 6 285 

The Graduate School 290 

University Commons 295 

President Hibben 297 

Karl Lang-lotz 300 

Prize Gymnasts of 1870 302 

The Stadium 305 



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PREFACE 

When our last previous Record was issued, we seemed to 
be facing a calm Indian Summer of life, a period of cheerful 
retrospection and of still hopeful expectation. Suddenly we 
have found ourselves in the ripeness of our years plunged into 
the whirl of the most momentous human activities since the 
overthrow of Rome's Western Empire. We become not only 
spectators of, but actors in, the world's last battle against the 
curse which Rome's dying aristocracy bequeathed to medieval 
Europe, the curse of feudalism, still existing in the form of 
Prussian oligarchy. 

It is an inestimable privilege to live in such an era. Small 
wonder indeed if we feel now in its fullest power that big 
enthusiasm, that half-formed devotion to ideals of honor, free- 
dom and intellectual cleanliness, which in our youthful ardor 
and vagueness we called the Spirit of '76. 

A perusal of the pages of this Record will prove that our 
Class has not passed the age of service. Some are officially 
engaged in work for the national safety. Others are unoffi- 
cially, but actively occupied. Many have ofi^ered their chil- 
dren, whose blood may be spent in this decisive struggle for 
the world's liberty. So far as we are informed, no '76 man 
has made himself notorious as a pacifist, an obstructionist or 
a pro-German. 

Notwithstanding the gravity of the conditions, this Record 
will undoubtedly satisfy every member of the Class that '76 
preserves a cheerful heart and stout faith. There is a plenty 
of that best kind of optimism which is the fruit of experience, 
good sense and human sympathy. The editors send out this 
new volume in the full confidence that it will add to the happi- 
ness of its readers. 

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PERSONAL HISTORY 

Graduates, Academic 

DUDLEY SOLON ANNESS, LL.B. 

Father, Charles Anness, born in 1829 in Philadelphia, 
Pa., manufacturer, Charles Anness and Sons, died in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., in 1903. 

Mother, Adeline Garrison Stagg, born in Paterson, N. J., 
in 1830, died at Woodbridge, N. J., in 1899. 

Born April 2, 1854, in Jersey City, N. J. Prepared at 
Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J., and entered 
Princeton in September, 1872. Member of Cliosophic So- 
ciety and roomed in 3 North West. After graduation he 
studied law and was admitted to practice by the Supreme 
Court of New Jersey in 1879. In 1883 he became a member 
of the New York Petroleum Exchange and Stock Board, 
which was consolidated later with the Mining Exchange 
under the name of the Consolidated Mining Exchange and 
Stock Board. In 1903 he entered the employ of the Bor- 
ough of Brooklyn, Bureau of Highways, Construction Di- 
vision, and is still employed there. 

Married in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 11, 1882, to Ida 
Elizabeth Garrison, daughter of Daniel Garrison. They 
have three children, the oldest of whom is married, and 
there are three grandchildren : Elizabeth Garrison Lane, 
born March 5, 1907, Virginia Fox Lane, April 27, 1910, and 
Millicent Newkirk Lane, May 23, 1913. 

He says : *T haven't anything of interest to add to the 
last report. I suppose the fact that I am still above ground 
will help complete the records." To which may be added 
that with wife, children and grandchildren he has been 
abundantly blessed in family life. 




HON. J. FRANK BALL, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, James Ball, bom 
in New Castle County, 
Del., Superintendent of the 
Philadelphia, Wilmington 
and Baltimore Railroad, 
married in Wilmington, 
Del., January 19, 1848. 

Mother, Hannah Hutch- 
inson, born in Chester 
County, Pa., died in Wil- 
mington, Del., in 1888. 

Born in Wilmington, 
January 4, 1854. Prepared 
at the Reynolds Classical 
and Mathematical Institute 
of Wilmington, and enter- 
ed Princeton in September, 1872. Member of Whig Hall, 
roomed in No. 14 North West. After graduation he stud- 
ied law, was admitted to the bar in November, T879, and 
since then has practiced his profession in Wilmington. He 
received the degree of A.M. from Princeton in 1879. In 
May, 1881, he was elected City Comptroller of Wilmington 
for a term of three years, reelected in 1884 without opposi- 
tion, appointed City Solicitor for three years in January, 
1887, and on November i, 1888, the Governor of Delaware 
appointed him Judge of the City Court for a term of twelve 
years. 

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Wilson 
College, member of the Board of Trustees of New Castle 
County Workhouse, President of the Associated Charities, 
member of the Board of the Ferris Industrial School for 
Boys, member of the Advisory Board of the Industrial 
School for Girls, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of 



the Y. W. C. A., member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Hanover Presbyterian Church. 

His chibs are the Princeton of Philadelphia, the Wil- 
mington of Wilmington and the Nassau of Princeton. 

Married October 13, 1881, to Ida M. Perkins, daughter 
of B. Frank Perkins. They have two daughters, both mar- 
ried, Ethel to William Staniar, February 17, 191 1, and Doro- 
thy to Hugo Schlatter, March 2, 1914. Each daughter has 
a child, Jean Ross Staniar, born August i, 19 12, and Aleine 
Ball Schlatter, April 5, 191 5. 



REV. JAMES MORRISON BARKLEY, A.M., D.D., 
LL.D. 

Father, John Cathey 
Barkley, farmer, born No- 
vember 28, 1820, in Lincoln 
County, N. C, married De- 
cember 19, 1844, near 
Statesville, N. C, died July 
28, 1893, near Statesville, 
N. C. 

Mother, Eliza Julia Mor- 
rison, born January 11, 
181 1, near Statesville, N. C, 
died there April 15, 1854. 

Born near Statesville, N. 
C, November 22, 1846. 
Prepared at Hillsboro, Illi- 
nois, and Freehold, New 
Jersey, entered Princeton in September, 1873. Room, 10 
South Reunion. Graduated about twenty-seventh. Won 
first prize in Junior Prize Debate, second prize in (Clio) 
Senior Essay, second prize in Nassau Lit. Essay, third prize 




in Lynde Debate, first prize in (Clio) Senior Speaking. 
Editor-in-chief of Nassau Lit., Memorial Orator on Class 
Day in 1876. Member of the Philadelphian Society and of 
Clio. Entered Princeton Theological Seminary in Septem- 
ber, 1876, and graduated April 29, 1879. Received the de- 
gree of A.M. in 1879, of D.D. from Alma College in 1900, 
and of LL.D. from Alma College in 1912. He was pastor 
of Wickliffe Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., from 
May, 1879, to September, 1882, of the First Presbyterian 
Church, Hillsdale, Mich., 1882 to 1885, of the Third (now 
Forest Avenue) Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Mich., from 
1886 until November, 191 6, when he resigned and was made 
Pastor Emeritus. He was Moderator of the Detroit Pres- 
bytery in 1898, of the Synod of Michigan 1894-5, of the 
General Assembly 1909-10. Acting-President of Alma Col- 
lege August to November, 191 5, Chairman of its Board of 
Trustees from 1913. 

"Jim" wrote in May, 1916, 'T am still on the old job in 
Detroit, but at the expiration of my thirtieth year I expect 
to retire, not from work but from this pastorate. H my 
present excellent health continues (weight 195), I am not 
likely to be idle long. I hope to put in some of my 'best 
licks' yet, Deo volente. 

"My son Earl is still a bachelor. He has a very fine den- 
tal practice, still sings, and is called a fine amateur actor, 
a bit of nature and of reminiscence of his days with the 
Triangle Club at Princeton. Marjorie is a happy resident 
of Cleveland in a beautiful home with a clever little daugh- 
ter of seven summers. Gladys was married June 18, 1912, 
to Frank Chandler Sibley, a lawyer in Detroit, and they, 
with Earl, live with me at 309 Putnam Avenue. Mary 
Conwell Sibley, born October 19, 1913, bears her maternal 
grandmother's name, is a companion and comfort to grand- 
daddv, and a delight to all that know her." 



"Jim" was married at Evanston, Illinois, to Mary Eliza 
Conwell, May 27, 1879, and they were at our Triennial Re- 
union the month following. She was "bidden to the Fath- 
er's House, April 26, 191 3," while visiting her daughter in 
Cleveland. On February 22, 1914, the ladies of the church 
presented a marble baptismal font as a loving memorial, 
and on the same day her youngest grandchild was baptized, 
the only one that day, the first from this font. Mrs. Bark- 
ley, the daughter of Rev. Francis Asbury and Mrs. Mary 
Mercy (Fingland) Conwell, was born at Laurel, Indiana. 
As a child she was on the firing line of Home Missions and 
with the rest of her father's family narrowly escaped the 
famous Sioux massacre of the early sixties. She was edu- 
cated at Hillsdale College and the Cincinnati College of 
Music. 

Barkley adds : "I was made an associate member of 
Detroit Post, G. A. R., nine years age, in my absence on 
vacation, 'for and in recognition of his (my) services as 
a citizen of this city and community.' I am also a member 
of the Detroit Board of Commerce and of the Detroit Ath- 
letic Club." 

On Memorial Day, 1916, the G. A. R. insisted on Jim's 
marching with them, and this he did, wearing his Confeder- 
ate Veteran's Bronze Cross of Honor and his G. A. R. 
badge side by side. On the Sunday preceding he preached 
to the members of the Detroit Post, and he corrects certain 
statements made in the Detroit News as follows : "What I 
said was, 'The Betsy Ross referred to in the story of the 
flag was the ancestress of my wife, and my own ancestors 
helped to make the flag possible, as they were of those 
"Hornets Riflemen" of Mecklenberg who stung the British, 
the invaders of their soil.' " 

"Jim" attended the Reunion in 19 16, the first at which 
he had been present since 1879. 



REV. SYLVESTER WOODBRIDGE BEACH, D.D. 

Father, Rev. Charles Beach, born m Newark, N. J., April 
9, 1819, died at Sykesville, Md., March 7, 1881. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman, and had the degrees A.B. and 
A.M. from Woodward College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Mother, Frances Coleman Woodbridge, born at East 
Hadley, Mass., September 23, 1824, died at Sykesville, Md., 
May 10, 1895. 

Born at Woodville, Miss., July 24, 1852. Prepared at 
Darnestown Academy under Mr. Andrew Small, entered 
Princeton in September, 1872. He took the George Potts 
Bible prize, and first prize in (Whig) Senior Debate. He 
had a speech at Commencement. Was President of the 

Philadelphian Society and 
a member of Whig Hall 
and roomed in 8 North 
College. 

At Princeton Theological 
Seminary from 1876 to 
1880. Received the degree 
of A.M. in 1879 and of 
D.D. from Wooster Uni- 
versity in 191 3. He was 
pastor of a Presbyterian 
church in Baltimore from 
1880 to 1887, at Bridgeton, 
N. J., from 1887 to 1901. 
In Paris, France, assistant 
pastor of the American 
Church and in charge of the Students' Latin Quarter Work 
from 1 90 1 to 1906. Pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Princeton since January i, 1906. He has been 
four times a commissioner to the General Assembly, Chair- 
man of Assembly's Committee on Work on the Continent 

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of Europe, Treasurer of the Student Latin Quarter Work 
and Chairman of the American Committee, Director of 
Princeton Theological Seminary and Secretary of the Board, 
Chairman of the Committee on Home Missions and Church 
Extension of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, etc., etc. 
He has served on the Grand Jury of the County. He is 
Past Master of Brearley Lodge No. 2, F. and A. M., mem- 
ber of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, of the Colonial Wars, of the Descen- 
dants of Colonial Governors, etc. He is the author of nu- 
merous sermons and addresses and of sundry magazine 
articles. He was elected a member of the Princeton Chap- 
ter of $. B. K. June 8, 1916. 

At Belle fonte, Pa., August 10, 1882, he was married to 
Eleanor Thomazine Orbison, daughter of Rev. James Henry 
Orbison, A.M. (Jefferson College), a missionary to India. 
Of their three daughters Eleanor was studying music in 
Paris in 1916, Sylvia was in Madrid, Spain, studying the 
language and literature and writing for the papers, and 
Hollingsworth was prosecuting a special course of study in 
New York. 

Under Beach's pastorate the First Church of Princeton 
is in a flourishing condition. From an article in a religious 
periodical of 1914 it is learned that the formation of the 
church dates back to 1751, its complete organization to 
1762. The Presbyterians of Princeton for some years wor- 
shiped in the chapel of the college, then, their numbers ex- 
ceeding the capacity of the chapel, the college granted 
grounds to the church for the erection of a house of wor- 
ship and loaned it 700 pounds sterling, a debt which was 
discharged by the people a few years later. The first build- 
ing was seriously damaged during the Revolution, having 
been used by both armies in turn, and it was not until 1816 
that it could be put in usable condition and the church be- 



come free from debt. Legal incorporation was effected 
February 21, 1786, and Rev. Dr. Witherspoon was re- 
quested to continue his labors in the pulpit. In 1813 the 
building was totally destroyed by fire. A new edifice was 
completed in June, 1814, which in turn was burned in 
1833. Its successor, the present structure, was ready for 
use in 1836. After Beach became the pastor, a new chapel 
and Sunday School room were erected in the rear of the 
church, the University giving the ground and $7,500, while 
the church raised $13,000. 

HENRY RUSH BIDDLE. Died January 3, 1877. 
[See Record No. IV, page 27.] 

LIEUT. JONATHAN WILLIAMS BIDDLE. Died Sep- 
tember 30, 1877. 
[See Record No. IV, page 28.] 

ROBERT EDWIN BONNER, A.M. 

Father, Robert Bonner, born at Ramelton, Ireland, April 
24, 1824, married in New York May 10, 1850, died July 6, 
1900. Journalist; honorary degree from Princeton about 

1897. 

Mother, Jane McCaulis, born May 10, 1830, in County 
Armagh, Ireland, died in New York April 3, 1878. 

Born in New York City July 26, 1854. Prepared at 
Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, New York, en- 
tered Princeton in September, 1872. Stood about the 
middle of the class at graduation. Roomed in 4 North Re- 
union. Was captain of class baseball team. Joline Eating 
Club. Degree of A.M. in 1879. Was a law student for 
about a year in the ofiice of Jacob Weart, Jersey City, N. J. 
From 1878 to 1887 he was reviewer of manuscripts and 
assisting Editor and Publisher of The Nezv York Ledger ; 

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from 1887 to 1 90 1 General 
Manager, Publisher and 
Associate Editor of The 
Nezv York Ledger, having 
a one-third interest in the 
periodical. He is a direc- 
tor of the Pennsylvania 
Cement Company at Bath, 
Pa., and of the McKennon 
Holmes Company of Sher- 
brooke, Quebec, Canada. 
Member of the University, 
Princeton, Lotos and Press 
Clubs of New York, of the 
Nassau Club at Princeton 
and of the KnoUwood 
Country Club of White Plains, New York. 

Married October 20, 1880, in New York, to Kate Helena 
Griffith, daughter of Edward Griffith of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

The oldest son, Griffith, is a journalist and saw service 
''on the border" in 19 16 in the Second Massachusetts regi- 
ment. Hampton is in business, and has joined the New 
York Marines at Norfolk, Va. Kenneth, Princeton, '14, is 
a student at the Harvard Law School and is in the Training 
Camp for Reserve Officers at Plattsburg, N. Y., and the 
daughter expects to sail in July, 1917, for service in France. 
Hampton was married September 26, 1914, at Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y., to Margaret Louise, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. 
Louis Curtis Wood. 

The "Czar" has become a farmer at Stockbridge, Mass., 
and besides giving his children for the service of his coun- 
try, he is putting forth all his wonted energy to cause "the 
tree of the field to yield her fruit and the earth to yield 



her increase." In August, 1917, Kenneth was appointed 
Second Lieutenant in the National Army. 



HON. HARRINGTON BROWN, LL.B. 

Father, William Van Horn Brown, born in Washington, 
D. C, in 1812, married in Troy, N. Y., September 16, 1846, 
had degrees of A.B., A.M. and M.D. from Columbian Col- 
lege, Washington, D. C, was Chief Clerk in the Land Office, 

died in Washington in 1862. 
Mother, Adelaide J. Har- 
rington, born in Troy, N. Y., 
April 17, 1827, died January, 
19 14, in Los Angeles, Cal. 
Born January i, 1856, m 
Washington, D. C. Pre- 
pared at Emerson Institute, 
Charles B. Young, Princi- 
pal, and the Preparatory 
Department of Columbian 
College (George Washing- 
ton University), Washing- 
ton, D. C, entered Princeton 
in September, 1872. Room 
5 North Reunion Hall, 
member of $. K. 2. and S. L. P. Attended the Columbian 
Law School from 1876 to 1878 and received the degree of 
LL.B. Has engaged in agriculture, horticulture, oil refin- 
ing, was President of the Southern Refining Company, and 
has been Postmaster of Los Angeles, Cal., since 191 •.. Mar- 
ried in Los Angeles, Cal., December 12, 1882, to Minnie 
Toland Glassell, daughter of Andrew Glassell, A.B.^ lawyer. 
In 1878 Harry went to Los Angeles, bought a large tract 
of land on the outskirts of the then small city, laid out 
streets, planted trees, set out vineyards and built a fine 




residence. In 1893 li^ built the first large oil refinery in 
Los Angeles, operated extensively in oil and formed the 
Southern Oil Refining Company, of which he was Presi- 
dent and one of the principal owners. 

Early in 1914 Harry was appointed Postmaster of Los 
Angeles by President Wilson and still holds that office in 
a city that claims a population of over 500,000 and to be 
the largest city in California. The Jeffersonian of Los 
Angeles says : "Mr. Brown has always been a loyal and 
consistent Democrat and a champion of clean politics and 
high principles. Socially he is a glad-hander and highly 
esteemed by those who know him. Mr. Brown is a man 
fully capable of administering the arduous and difficult 
duties of the postmastership of this large and growing 
community. Mr. Brown was a 'dark horse' in the race 
and was Avorking for someone else for the position." 

Soon after his appointment Harry wrote the secretary, 
"My one ambition will be to have President Wilson instruct 
Postmaster General Burleson to order me to have all the 
mail boxes painted orange and black. The carrying out of 
such an order would inspire me with enthusiasm." 

In July, 1917, "Mickey" wrote: "I was the captain of 
one of the teams which made the drive for a million dollars 
for the Red Cross in the week of June 18 to 25 and all my 
time was engaged with this work. We exceeded the amount 
by about fifty thousand dollars. My two boys are out at 
their desert ranch — El Peral — the ranch they purchased 
and owned before the war, working hard, the thermometer 
registering 120° in the shade.'' 

In September, 1916, "Mickey" entertained at lunch at 
the University Club "Dick" Johnson, B. O. Cowan and 
"General" Harrison in a small '76 Reunion which had all 
the affection and good fellowship that characterized the 
gathering at Princeton in June. 



The Postmaster is a member of the University Club, 
Gamut Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Municipal League, 
Mechanics' and Manufacturers' Association, Princeton 
Alumni Association and 4>. K. 2. 



JOHN POLLOCK BROWN 

Father, John Hutchison Brown, born near Amsterdam, 
N. Y., July 21, 1816, Union College A.B. 1844, A.M. 1847, 
married at St. Andrews, Orange County, N. Y., August 31, 
1848, Principal of a private school at 244 West 19th Street, 
New York City, died September 4, 1899, at Yonkers, N. Y. 

Mother, Abigail M. Beattie, born at St. Andrews, N. Y., 
January 18, 1824, died February 26, 1901, at Yonkers, N. Y. 

Born in New York City October 22, 1855. Prepared at 
Yonkers Public Schools, entered Princeton in September, 
1872. Graduated about thirteenth, roomed at 12 South 
West. Member of Clio Hall. After graduation he was 
engaged for five years in preparing boys for college. Since 
1881 he has been in the employ of Charles Scribner's Sons, 
with the exception of two years' absence on account of ill- 
health. 

''Jai' was married November 7, 1888, at Ballston Center, 
Saratoga County, N. Y., to Minnie E. Wheeler, daughter of 
John Wheeler, farmer. They have three daughters, of 
whom Dorothy was married June 2, 1917, to Norman B. 
McWilliams, M.D., and one son, who was graduated at 
Princeton in 1913 with the degree of A.B. and has since 
taken a course in Agriculture at Cornell University. 

"Jai" writes : "It may seem strange that the passing 
years add so little to what I have to report, but about the 
only change of which I am aware since our last Class Rec- 
ord is that brought about by the effect of the years on the 
physical system." 



HON. OREN BRITT BROWN, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Edwin Franklin Brown, born in Orleans County, 
N. Y., April 23, 1823, married September 10, 1844, at Me- 
dina, N. Y., farmer, soldier. Inspector General of National 
Military Homes, died January 10, 1903, in New York City. 

Mother, Elizabeth Britt, born at Medina, N. Y., in June, 
1824, died at Dayton, Ohio, in June, 1879. 

Born at Jeddo, Orleans County, N. Y., June 22, 1853. 
Prepared at Central High 
School, Dayton, Ohio, and 
Denison University, Gran- 
ville, Ohio, entered Prince- 
ton in January, 1874. 
Member of Whig Hall, 
roomed in Old North and 
in North Reunion. 

"Oby" was married June 
12, 1883, at Dayton, Ohio, 
t o Jeannette Gebhart, 
daughter of Simon Geb- 
hart, manufacturer and 
banker. He became an at- 
torney at law in 1878, was 
County Clerk from 1882 to 
1885, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Second Ohio 
District, from 1896 to 1913, declining a renomination at the 
expiration of his second term. He then formed a partner- 
ship for the practice of law with Alfred Swift Frank, Am- 
herst '08. He is a member of the Dayton Club, Dayton 
Country Club, and Buz Fuz Club of Dayton. 

In the great Ohio floods in 191 3, the raging waters swept 
through Oby's residence, floating ofif his furniture and his 
library, and depositing a deep layer of mud, inflicting an 
immense amount of damage. In order to prevent a recur- 




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rence of these conditions The Dayton Citizens' Relief Com- 
mission was organized, through whose efforts, with "Oby" 
acting as its attorney, the Miami Conservancy District was 
created, a conservancy law was formulated, a conservancy 
court created, the necessary legislative requirements taken 
up, and opposition fought to successful decrees from all 
courts. The plan involved an expenditure of about $25,- 
000,000 for scientific flood prevention in the Miami Valley. 

The Dayton Journal of September 26, 191 5, tells how 
Judge Brown earned his first dollar. His father was living 
on a farm in western New York and one day when "Oby" 
was about seven years old his mother suggested that he 
might earn a little money by carrying the milk to his grand- 
father's every day, a distance of a quarter of a mile, and 
for each trip he should receive a penny. "Oby" agreed and 
placed his earnings in a bank. Soon after these amounted 
to a dollar Louis Kossuth came to this country and appealed 
for funds to aid in the establishment of the Hungarian Re- 
public, offering to every donor of one dollar a certificate 
promising to pay a dollar in return, with interest, one year 
after the founding of the republic. Under the spell of 
Kossuth's eloquence and a desire for the spread of democ- 
racy and the possession of a certificate, "Oby" invested a 
dollar and the certificate was one of his highly valued treas- 
ures until it was swept away in the 19 13 flood. 

"Oby" attended the Reunion in 1916 and on returning 
home wrote. "I shall never be able to tell you how much I 
enjoyed the Reunion." 

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, LL.B. 

Father, William Allen Butler, born in Albany, N. Y., in 
1825, married March 21, 1850, lawyer, LL.D. from New 
York University, died at Yonkers, N. Y., September 9, 
1902. 

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Mother, Mary Russell Marshall, born at i6 Lispenard 
Street, New York City, November 30, 1828. 

Born in New York July 14, 1853. Prepared at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass., entered Princeton in September, 
1873. At graduation took the Boudinot Historical Fellow- 
ship. Member of Whig Hall, roomed in 18 South East. 
Was Treasurer, then President, of the Princeton University 
Boat Club. Studied at Columbia College Law School, and 
has been continuously en- 
gaged in the practice of 
law ; member of the firms 
of Butler, Stillman and 
Hubbard; Butler, Notman, 
Joline and Mynderse ; But- 
ler, Brown, Wyckoff and 
Campbell ; and Butler, 
Wyckofif and Campbell. He 
is Treasurer of the Church 
Extension Committee of 
the Presbytery of New 
York, Director and Trus- 
tee of the Seamen's Bank 
for Savings, Director of the 
Franklin Trust Company, 
of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation of Lon- 
don, and of the Hanover Fire Insurance Company. 

He is a member of the Princeton, Metropolitan, Uni- 
versity and Lawyers' Clubs of New York, of the Bar Asso- 
ciation of the City of New York, of the Down Town Asso- 
ciation of New York, of the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
ington and of the Ivy and Nassau of Princeton. He is 
President of the Lawyers' Club, as he has been since he 
founded it. 

Wm. Allen was married at Yonkers, N. Y., to Louise Terry 




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Collins, daughter of Charles Collins, merchant, October i, 
1884. They have had three sons, graduating at Princeton 
in 1909, 1910, and 1912, respectively, and two daughters, 
of whom Lydia was married to Maitland Dwight, Prince- 
ton '11, on May 26, 1914. There is one grandchild, Mait- 
land Dwight, Jr., born March 31, 191 5. 

The following letter to Congressman Cox, to whom Wm. 
Allen had written, urging him in the name of the War 
Committee of the Lawyers' Club to support universal mili- 
tary service, is self-explanatory. 

"New York, April 25, 1917. 
"My Dear Mr. Cox : In answer to your letter of April 
22, in which you ask me to tell you why it is that New 
York is lagging far behind other States in its volunteers 
and ask me whether I or my boys or wife's relatives have 
enlisted and asking their names ; as to myself, having been 
interested in the events of 1861, I am a trifle beyond the 
enlistment age. I have to say that my son. Dr. Charles T. 
Butler, has just spent seven months as a surgeon in the 
American Red Cross in the French Hospital at Ris-Orangis, 
France ; that my son, Lyman C. Butler, is an officer in the 
Seventh Regiment and has been connected with that regi- 
ment for upward of six years, having re-enlisted in June, 
1916, served in Texas, and he is now a member of the or- 
ganization. My brother's son. Dr. Ethan Flagg Butler, in 
the early part of the European war took two United States 
Red Cross units to Serbia and was in charge of a hospital 
there and did splendid service in fighting the typhus fever. 
My sister's son, Sam Paul, for six months drove an Ameri- 
can ambulance on the Verdun firing line in France. My 
nephews, William Paul and Henry Franklin Butler, enlisted 
this Spring in the Naval Reserve and are now in active ser- 
vice on the coast. My niece, Mary Paul, has taken a course 
as trained nurse for the Reserve Corps. My daughter, 

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Louise T. Butler, has taken trained attendant courses and 
is a member of the Presbyterian Hospital, signed up for the 
reserve service. Aly nephew, Charles M. Butler, is a Lieu- 
tenant of the Officers' Reserve Corps and goes into service 
at Plattsburg next w^eek. My nephew, John Crosby Butler, 
is in the First New York Armored Motor Car Battery. 
Now passing to my wife's relatives, she has two nephews, 
Czaykowski by name, in the French Army now in the 
trenches. I take pleasure in answering your letter, so far 
as my own and my wife's family are concerned, at once. I 
remain, my dear sir, very respectfully yours, 

"William Allen Butler, 
"President of The Lawyers' Club." 

"P. S. — I forgot to mention my son-in-law, Maitland 
Dwight, who is enrolled in the College Men's Training 
Corps, drilling at Governors Island and attending military 
lectures. W. A. B." 

After serving with the Seventh Regiment in Texas in 
1916, Lyman Butler, Wm. Allen's son, returned to New 
York to his law practice, but with health somewhat im- 
paired. On June 20, 19 17, while waiting with his father in 
the Grand Central Subway station, on their way to their 
office, an attack of vertigo caused him to fall before an in- 
coming train. Seriously injured, he was hurriedly taken to 
a hospital and there died while being prepared for an oper- 
ation, the first of the 76 family to give his life for his 
country in his generation. The bereaved family may be as- 
sured of the deepest sympathy of every member of the 
Class. 

REV. ARTHUR BILLINGS CHAFFEE, A.M., D.D. 

Father, James Chaffee, born August 21, 1811, merchant 
in Philadelphia, Chaffee, Stout and Co., died at Avondale, 
N. J., November 12, 1880. 

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Mother, Harriet Sophia 
Billings, born in 1813 at 
Somersville, Conn., died at 
Franklin, Indiana, in 1889. 
Born in Philadelphia, 
BPa., June 19, 1852. Pre- 
■ pared at Williston Semi- 
V^ nary and at a private school 

^ at Saratoga, N. Y., took 

freshman and sophomore 
*^ years at the University of 
Rochester, and entered 
'y-^^ Princeton in September, 

1874. At graduation was 
in the first twenty-five. 
Roomed in 18 South Mid- 
dle Reunion and 2 South East. Received the degree of 
A.M. from Princeton in 1879, and of D.D. from Franklin 
College, Franklin, Ind., in 1895. He was professor of Latin 
at Franklin College from 1879 to 1887, of Chemistry and 
Physics from 1887 to 1889; pastor of Baptist churches in 
Indiana and Iowa from 1889 to 1896; President of Central 
University, Pella, Iowa, 1896 to 1900; in the pastorate at 
Des Moines, Iowa, and professor of Mental Science and 
History in Des Moines College, 1900; President of Bishop 
College, Marshall, Texas, from 1901 to 1907; professor of 
History in Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., from 
1907 to 191 1. Since 1912 in business in Chicago. 

Married at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 14, 1879, to 
Laura Caroline Putnam, daughter of Mervin Gideon Put- 
nam. They have had eight children, of whom one has died, 
and five grandchildren. 

For four years Chafl^ee was secretary of the Indiana Bap- 
tist State Committee, and in 1888-9 ^ member of the In- 
diana Academy of Science. 

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In June, 1916, Chaffee wrote : "My inability to attend 
Commencement and Class functions has always been a 
cause of deep regret. The same reasons exist to-day and 
I must deny myself the extreme pleasure of meeting the 
veterans of '76. But you can convey to my classmates my 
love and best wishes, with hopes of reunion further on. 
For the last five years I have been in business in Chicago 
and am now in the office of my sons James and Lawrence, 
ornamenting the surroundings and having dignified duties. 

"Last Saturday I marched with the Princeton bunch in 
the 'preparedness parade' and had to become a 'quitter' af- 
ter going a third of the way. My legs are too short, my 
breath too meager and my pores too open for a long march 
on a warm day. 

"My dear General, I cannot express my desire to be with 
you at our Reunion, but I cannot come. 'May you all re- 
turn late into heaven' and exemplify in the further days 
allotted you the same sturdy virtues ever seen in the prin- 
ciples and deeds of the members of Princeton '76." 

The oldest son has had pastorates at Iowa City, Iowa, and 
Marion, Ind., and is now a Y. M. C. A. secretary in Chi- 
cago. Eleanor is a teacher of History and Assistant Prin- 
cipal of a school at Muscatine, Iowa. Kenneth finished 
sophomore year at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and 
is now associated with his brothers James and Lawrence 
and his father in the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Company 
of New York, Chicago and Boston. Arthur, Jr., is assistant 
secretary of the Shotwell Manufacturing Company of Chi- 
cago; he was married July 15, 1915, to Dorothy Stohr and 
they have a child, Louise, born May 31, 19 16. Other grand- 
children born since our last Record are Ruth Elizabeth, 
born February 11, 1914, daughter of Harold, and Bettie and 
June, daughters of James, born respectively June 13, 191 5, 
and June 9, 1916. 

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REV. WILLIAM NESBITT CHAMBERS, A.M., D.D. 

Father, Robert Chambers, born August 27, 18 12, at Moy- 
auck, County Tyrone, Ireland, farmer, married at Chinga- 
conay, Ontario, Canada, February 3, 1846, died February 
28, 1 88 1, at Woodstock, Canada. 

Mother, Catherine Lucas Nesbitt, born April 11, 1823, 
at Points Pass, Ireland, died April 27, 1877, at Kingston, 
Canada. 

Born at North Norwich, Ontario, Canada, February 22, 
1853. Prepared under private tuition, spent one year in 
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and entered Prince- 
ton in September, 1873. 
Member of Whig Hall, 
roomed in town. Studied 
at Princeton Theological 
Seminary 1876 to 1878, at 
Union Theological Semi- 
nary, New York, 1878 to 
1879. Received the degree 
of A. M. at Princeton in 
1879, of D.D., at Queen's 
University, Kingston, Can- 
ada, in April, 191 1, and of 
D.D., at Princeton, June, 
191 1. Missionary of the 
American Board of Com- 
missioners for Foreign 
Missions in Erzroom, Turkey, and chairman and treasurer 
of the station from 1879 to 1899, and from 1899 to 1916 
in Adana, Turkey, here also chairman and treasurer of the 
station. President of the International Relief Commission, 
President of the Industrial Relief Commission (a Turkish 
Government appointment). Chairman of the School Board 
of the mission station. Member of the Board of Directors 




of Tarsus College, of Central Turkey College at Aintab, 
of the Marash Theological Seminary, and of the Interna- 
tional Hospital at Adana. 

Married to Mary BHss, May 20, 1880, at Erzroom, who 
died May 20, 1881. On May 7, 1884, he married CorneHa 
Pond Williams, daughter of William Frederick Williams, 
M.A., a missionary in Mosul and Mardin, Turkey. Chil- 
dren: Ralph Gordon, born in Erzroom in 1885, died in 
1888, Talcott Williams, born in Erzroom in 1886, died in 
Switzerland in 1902, Kate Ethel and Dorothea Nesbitt. 
Kate was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 191 1, is a Ph.D. 
of Columbia University, 1915; she translated Prof. Gold- 
zier's book on Islam, published by the Yale University 
Press; she was married November, 1915, to Rev. Laurens 
H. Seelye, a graduate of Amherst and Union Seminary. 
Dorothea entered Bryn Mawr in 191 5. 

Translation of a letter from Ahmet Djemal Bey of Bagh- 
dad to W. N. Chambers of Adana : 

"Baghdad, Kyanon u evel 27, 1327, 
"December, 191 1. 
"Honored Friend : 

"With great joy I read your letter every line of which, 
written in true friendship, was redolent of sincerity. How 
is it possible for me to forget the noble face of that human- 
ity-loving son of America who, with indefatigable effort 
and patient endeavour for such long time, worked with me 
in my honest endeavour, when appointed as an officer, to 
bind up some of the gaping and bleeding wounds of hu- 
manity. How could my heart not beat with greatly acceler- 
ated pulse as I read the letter that brought to mind the 
patient endeavour of those sorrowful days now past? 

"I assure you that it was with great difficulty that I with- 
drew from Adana. In Constantinople my nearest friends 
in the Cabinet worked steadily for two months and only 



after that were they able to induce me to accept Baghdad. 
It appeared to me that if I left Adana the Adana people 
would be left orphan, or I would be deprived of my be- 
loved people (children). 

"As the responsibilities of Baghdad are in comparison 
about ten times those of Adana I beg that you pray for 
me that God (Jenab u Hakk) would vouchsafe to me 
strength and courage. 

"The honorary degree bestowed by the University, which 
produced such a worthy and cultured person as yourself, 
in recognition of the real worth of your success seems to 
me quite inadequate, a recognition that you have long since 
received from Jenab u Hakk (God). 

"May Jenab u Hakk give peace to yourself and family. I 
salute all my friends in Adana. 

"Your sincere friend who always remembers you with 
respect and prays for your prosperity, 

"(signed) Ahmet Djemal (former Vali of Adana)." 

"June 7, 1916. 
"10 Hopper St., Utica, N. Y. 
"My dear Harrison : 

"The memories of the 35th Reunion are still very vivid 
and the 40th is with us. It almost seems as if there has 
been no interval of time and yet the experiences of these 
past five years have enough of thrilling tragedy to cover a 
life time. Three months after that Reunion I returned to 
Turkey, leaving Mrs. Chambers here in America. Cross- 
ing to Havre I took train there and, with the exception of 
a day's ride by carriage through the Cilician Gates pass in 
the Taurus mountains, I traveled by rail all the way from 
Havre in France through Paris. Vienna, and Constanti- 
nople to Adana in Cilicia, Turkey. This Berlin- Vienna- 
Constantinople-Adana-Aleppo-Damascus Railroad has been 
an important line in supplying the Turkish army threaten- 



ing Egypt, forcing the surrender at Kut-el-Amara and 
checking the Russian advance at Mansakhatoon west of 
Erzroom. I reached Adana in twenty travehng days from 
New York. 

"The following April I returned to America for my regu- 
lar furlough year. Two incidents in that journey may be 
of interest. It was the time of the Turko-Italian War. I 
boarded an Egyptian steamer at Mersine for Constanti- 
nople. We found the Smyrna harbor mined. The captain 
was very nervous as he crawled through the narrow, wind- 
ing path left free of mines for merchant ships. He was a 
greatly relieved man when he got out again to free water, 
only to have his anxiety increased tenfold when we reached 
the Dardanelles, which had just been mined. We were 
halted three or four hours, and then the dozen waiting 
steamers were allowed to file in carefully in the wake of the 
pilot, who informed the Captains that the straits were 
mined, and that one mine had broken away from its moor- 
ings and had not been recovered. Our Captain went at a 
snail's pace, hugging the shore and was a thrice happy man 
when he reached the free inner waters of the straits. 

"From Constantinople to Budapest I had, as travehng 
companions, three young Turks. They were well informed 
and pleasant fellows. They told me a good many things 
about the revolution of 1908-9, over which they waxed en- 
thusiastic, condemning the Hamidian regime, condemning 
Hamid in unmeasured terms, and heartily commending the 
attitude of the x\rmenians through the whole affair. 

"Reaching London I found the Titanic ready to make her 
maiden voyage. I was about to take passage on her when, 
three days before she sailed, I found more advantageous 
accommodations on the Carmania. We passed through 
that ice field and saw twenty or thirty towering ice- 
bergs all around us — a magnificent and memorable sight. 

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We reached Xew York the day of the Titanic tragedy. 

"After a year's furlough Mrs. Chambers and I returned 
to Adana in April, 1913. In the spring of the following 
year, pursuing my missionary work I was traveling over the 
mountains to attend the annual meeting of the mission at 
Aintab. I had as companions three Armenians from the 
town of Had j in. We had an armed gendarme as guard. 
As we were making our way in Indian file, the gendarme 
leading and I close behind him, over a very narrow and 
rocky bit of road on the edge of a deep precipice, we were 
suddenly called on to halt. Glancing to our left front we 
looked into the muzzle of a rifle leveled at us in the hands 
of a desperado not fifty feet away. In a moment the gen- 
darme had dismounted and with rifle unslung was seeking 
cover behind a boulder to beat oft' the brigand, when he 
fell at my side pierced by a bullet, dead in his tracks. He 
might have saved his life by throwing up his hands — he died 
in an eft'ort to discharge his duty. I appreciated the marks- 
manship of the brigand, for the gendarme was right at my 
side. It was also interesting to me to note the Turkish 
officer to whom I reported the affair, as he solemnly rose 
to his feet, made a military salute, exclaiming, 'That was 
a brave man, would that all our gendarmes were brave like 
that. May Allah give him peace." 

"The brigands proved to be a band of eight or ten men, 
deserters from the Turkish army, who went through the 
party, detaining us about an hour. They did not take any- 
thing from me, even though I offered my purse to induce 
them to release one of my companions whom they were 
handling rather roughly and whose life they threatened. 
Being somewhat particular they rejected silver money and 
took only a gold watch and five Turkish gold liras — about 
$25 — and with sundry threats and admonitions sent us on 
our way. The rest of that day's journey — we traveled far 

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into the night — seemed like a mournful funeral procession. 
The brigands would not permit us to do anything for the 
murdered man and it cast a gloom over us not to be allowed 
to show a little respect for the man who had sacrificed his 
life in an attempt in our defense — a brave fellow even 
though a Moslem Turk. 

"The regular caravan road being infested with brigands 
we made a detour, taking a less frequented path up over 
the higher reaches of the mountains. A couple of months 
after my return to Adana I was summoned to Court as a 
'suspect' in the investigation of the murder of the gendarme. 
That charge was immediately dismissed and the whole alTair 
was lost in the war excitement. 

"With the entrance of Turkey into the war in the autumn 
of 1914 the situation in Adana became serious. At one 
time there was considerable apprehension that the Allies 
would attempt to occupy Cilicia and straddle the Baghdad 
Railroad at Adana. Strange no such attempt by the Allies 
was made, though military men judged that forty to fifty 
thousand troops would have been sufficient at that time and 
so have cut off supplies from the west and isolated Syria, 
Mesopotania and Armenia. However in December allied 
warships in the Eastern Mediterranean threatened to bom- 
bard Alexandretta. When this became known the Turkish 
authorities issued an order for the arrest of all male Brit- 
ish subjects. Twenty-six of us, eighteen of whom were 
Mohammedans from India and Afghanistan, were called to 
police headquarters and after some hours' detention, dur- 
ing which time we could find out nothing of the intention 
of the government, we were ordered to 'fall in.' Surrounded 
by a guard of soldiers with fixed bayonets we were marched 
through the city to the Turkish quarters and locked up, the 
eight Europeans in one room and the eighteen Asiatics in 
another. Neither room had a bit of furniture. Our 

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friends could not find out what had become of us and their 
apprehension was greatly increased by the announcement 
that we were being held as hostages pending the bombard- 
ment of Alexandretta, so that in case any Ottomans should 
suffer in that bombardment it would be life for life. The 
bombardment was skillfully done. The branch line of the 
Baghdad Railroad was put out of commission, no persons 
were injured, and after forty-eight hours of detention as 
prisoners of war we were released. This incident passed, 
for ten months I was treated with every consideration by 
Turkish officials and had no ground of complaint, though 
it was well known that I was a Canadian. 

"During my thirty-seven years of missionary service I 
have passed through a famine period, the massacre period 
of 1894-6, and again the massacre of 1909. each of which 
was more horribly hideous than the preceding one and each 
one appearing to be the acme of human suffering and en- 
durance. I do not hesitate to say, however, that the years 
191 5-6 will stand out in the history of Armenia and the 
Turkish Empire as the years of the blackest, most inhuman, 
most diabolical of all the bloody events of their history, 
possibly of all modern history. Through racial and relig- 
ious animosity and political suspicion, incurred through no 
fault of their own, the Armenian nation was banned and 
outlawed by the Turkish governmental administration, not 
by the Turkish people as a whole. The cruelty of the situ- 
ation was greatly accentuated by the proclamation of the 
'Holy War' by the Sultan as Caliph of Islam, and the awful, 
unholy orgy of blood and rapine and abduction, accom- 
panied by the most cruel deportations of the great mass of 
the Armenian people, with the confiscation of all their 
property. 

"Though this time I saw no actual massacring, I was a 
witness to the deportation of the fifteen to eighteen thou- 

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sand Armenians of all classes from Adana, as they were 
forced away from their homes to join the hundreds of 
thousands of people who had been driven from their homes 
on the north and west of the Taurus mountains and through 
the Cilician Gates pass and across the Adana plain in the 
scorching heat and over the Auranus mountains to northern 
Syria. The ghastly hideousness of the whole situation is 
beyond human imagination. 

"While yet in Adana there was great satisfaction in do- 
ing what was possible to relieve distress. Of my own 
choice I would have been there still. However I reluctantly 
yielded to the urgent advice of all my friends and with- 
drew from Turkey last October. Thanks to Uncle Sam 
we were taken off from Mersine by U. S. S. Des Moines 
and brought to Greece, where we took a Greek steamer for 
New York. Flurries because of submarines and search- 
ings by French officials for German spies marked our pas- 
sage through the Mediterranean, as did rough weather on 
the Atlantic, and after a voyage of twenty-nine days from 
Athens we reached New York a day late for Thanksgiving, 
but not too late to be thankful. 

"Since arriving in America I have been trying to 'do my 
bit' towards the raising of funds for Armenian relief and 
the development of interest in the call by the American 
Ambassador at Constantinople for a fund of $5,000,000 to 
save the Armenians and restore the remnant to their homes." 



REV. CHARLES BROOKES CHAPIN, A.M., D.D. 

Father, Rev. Henry Barton Chapin, D.D., born at Roch- 
ester, N. Y., September 14, 1827, married February 22, 
1854, a Presbyterian pastor for several years and then prin- 
cipal of a private school for boys in New York City for 
forty years, received the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton in 



i868 and of D.D. from Princeton in 1891, died at White 
Plains, N. Y., July 7, 1914. 

Mother, Harriet A. Smith, born October 21, 1835, died 
in New York City March 15, 1914. 

Born May 20, 1855, in New York City. Prepared at 

Chapin Collegiate School, 
New York City, entered 
Princeton in sophomore 
year, graduated ti nth in the 
class, roomed in Carpen- 
ter's Building. President 
of Philadelphian Society. 
In senior year in the Cale- 
donian Games he won the 
hundred yard, quarter mile, 
and half mile races ; was 
chosen to represent Prince- 
ton in the Intercollegiate 
Games, but was unable to 
go. Studied at the Union 
Theological Seminary, 
graduating in 1880. Received degree of A.M. from Prince- 
ton in 1879, of D.D. from the New York University June 
8, 1895. He has served as pastor in Presbyterian and Dutch 
Reformed Churches, and is now pastor of the First Pres- 
byterian Church of South Bethlehem, Pa. He has been 
Moderator of Presbytery and President of Classis. 

Married April 5, 1880, in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Florence 
Adelaide Johnson, who died May 17, 1906. On July 8, 
1909, in Charleston, S. C, he married Mrs. Mary (Sum- 
mers) Pemberton, daughter of Jacob Washington Summers, 
a physician. His son Francis Stuart was married to Estelle 
Peck, September 7, 191 1, and has two sons, Edward B. and 
Francis Stuart, Jr. 




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Charlie was a Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton ; is a member 
of the Cincinnati of Rhode Island, and secretary of the 
Patria Club of New York. He has written considerably for 
the religious and the secular press. 

In May, 1916, Charlie wrote: "It begins to look very 
much as though I could not get to our Class celebration at 
all this year. I cannot tell you how deeply disappointed I 
am. The one and only reason is the serious illness of my 
wife, who is in the South at her mother's, where she has 
been for some time, and as she is not improving the only 
chance is to get her away to a sanitarium, and I am going 
to her at once to attend to it. 

"For years I have been looking forward to this time, but 
this call is imperative. Give my love to all the fellows and 
tell them I hope they will have the best time ever." 

In November, 1913, Charlie accepted a call to the First 
Presbyterian Church of South Bethlehem. The President 
of Lehigh University, a number of the professors and stu- 
dents are members of or attendants at this church. 

REV. HARRISON CLARKE, A.M. 

Father, William McMara Clarke, born in February, 1820, 
in County Cavan, Ireland, farmer and blacksmith, married 
in Albany, N. Y., April 10, 1849, died in Sharon, Wis., 
January 2, 1902. 

Mother, Martha Harrison, born in County Cavan, Ire- 
land, in October, 1822, died December 21, 1905, in Sharon, 
Wis. 

Born near Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, N. Y., 
April 24, 1850. Prepared at the State Normal School, 
Normal, 111., and the Preparatory Department of Beloit 
College, Beloit, Wis. Entered Princeton in September, 
1873. Member of Whig Hall, roomed at 37 Nassau Hall. 
He took the freshman year at Beloit College ; was in the 

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Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary from 1878, graduat- 
ing in 1 88 1. From 1876 to 
1877 he was principal of a 
public school at Roscoe, 
111. ; pastor of Presbyterian 
churches at Vienna and 
Lewinsville, Fairfax Coun- 
ty, Va., from May, 1882, 
to September, 1884 ; at the 
Second Amwell Church, 
Mt. Airy, N. J., from Sep- 
tember, 1884, to September, 
1889; at Coal City, 111., 
from August, 1891 to Oc- 
tober, 1899. In 1889 to 
1890 he was Principal of the Academy at Corning, Iowa. 
From 1899 to 19 13 he resided in Boulder, Colorado, raising 
fruit, and since 19 13 he has been living in Denver. He was 
commissioner to the General Assembly at Minneapolis in 
1899. 

Married in Washington, D. C, January i, 1885, to Mary 
Frances Barnes, daughter of Almont Barnes, LL.B., cap- 
tain in the Union Army, Consul to Curagoa, later in the Ag- 
ricultural Department at Washington, D. C. 

In May, 1916, Clarke wrote: "During the winter of 
1911-12 I supplied the Presbyterian Church of Cimarron, 
Kansas. We came to Denver in July, 191 3. Mrs. Clarke 
passed to her heavenly rest September 21, 1915, in Denver, 
after a lingering illness. None of the children are mar- 
ried. Francis Palmer, the youngest son, took his fresh- 
man year at Westminster College and his sophomore at 
the State University in Boulder. His great ambition is to 
go to Princeton. 



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"What do I owe to Princeton? Every graduate owes 
more than he can ever repay. Though he may not be able 
to do much in a material way, still he owes unlimited de- 
votion and loyalty to his Alma Mater and always to main- 
tain her good name. And now after forty years I long to 
be back in dear old classic, historic, theologic Princeton, to 
breathe once more the atmosphere of the days long since 
gone by. And the tear will unbidden start as I realize that 
I cannot be at our quadragintennial to see the boys once 
more 'face to face, that our joy may be full.' 'Peace to all. 
Greet the friends by name.' 

" 'And so, when long, long years have passed 
Some dear old fellow will be the last.' " 

Mrs. Clarke was very active in church work while her 
husband was in the pastorate. On account of her health 
the family went to Colorado, and the change proved bene- 
ficial. Her last illness developed a few months before her 
death. She was a lineal descendant of the Rev. John Rogers 
of the English Reformation, who was burned at the stake. 

Paul McCosh Clarke and Hazel Grant, a relative of Gen. 
U. S. Grant, were married June 3, 19 17, at Denver, Colo- 
rado. 

WILLIAM ALLAN CLELAND, LL.B., met a sudden and 
violent death in Portland, Oregon, February 27, 1913. Leav- 
ing the home of his brother. Judge John B. Cleland, with 
whom he lived, in the early evening to attend a meeting, 
while crossing a street to take a car, he was struck by an 
automobile which had been following the street car and 
had turned out to pass it. The speed of the automobile 
was too great to permit the driver to stop it in time after 
he saw Cleland, and the latter was almost instantly killed. 
He was taken in the motor to a hospital and passed away 
a few minutes after arrival. 

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T h e funeral services 
were held on March 2 in 
the Masonic Temple, which 
was crowded with men and 
women of every rank and 
profession, city officials, 
members of the bar, who 
attended in a body, and 
members of various orders 
a n d societies. Knights 
Templars were present in 
full dress uniform, the 
Grand Lodge had charge 
of the opening services, and 
an address was delivered 
by Rev. Dr. Luther R. 
Dyott of the First Congregational Church. 

"A-Iuch of the character of our brother, Mr. Cleland, was 
known to you all," said Dr. Dyott, "but I venture to say 
that the best part of him was known only to his God, for 
he was not a man to proclaim his good deeds from the 
housetops. His religion was to do good, his field was the 
world in which he belonged. He was God's good man, not 
of one creed or belief, but striving to do all the good that 
in him lay. His was the aristocracy of character, unselfish- 
ness was his second self, and he was above all a consistent 
member of the order, than which no higher tribute could 
be paid. His kindness was universally known." 

Thousands lined the streets to witness the procession as 
it moved to Riverview Cemetery, five hundred Masons pre- 
ceding the hearse, which was followed by a long line of 
carriages. 

Our classmate was born June 22, 1855, at Center, Rock 
County, Wisconsin, the son of James Cleland, born at New- 



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burgh, N. Y., April 14, 1820, and Isabella Bryson, born in 
Ireland May 25, 1826. Preparing at Beloit, Wisconsin, 
where he and Harrison Clarke took the first part of their 
college course, he entered Princeton in September, 1874, 
roomed with Clarke at 37 North, and immediately won the 
regard and esteem of his fellows. After graduation he 
studied law, was admitted to the bar at Osage, Iowa, where 
he practiced for several years, then at Grafton, North 
Dakota, serving as clerk of the Court for two years and as 
a director of the Grafton National Bank; going to Fargo 
in 1889 he and his brother and a friend formed a law part- 
nership, under the name of Miller, Cleland and Cleland. In 
1890 the brothers went to Portland, Oregon, and estab- 
lished themselves under the firm name of John B. and W. 
A. Cleland, which partnership continued until the death of 
William, who carried on the business alone while his brother 
held the Circuit Court Judgeship. 

Mr. Cleland was a prominent Mason, being past grand 
commander of the Oregon commandery Knights Templar, 
and at the time of his death grand treasurer of the grand 
lodge of Oregon. He was a member of Portland Lodge 
No. 55, A. F. and A. M. ; of Portland Chapter No. 3, Royal 
Arch Masons; of Oregon Commandery No. i. Knights 
Templar ; of Al Kader Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 
and of Myrtle chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. 
He served in various offices of these Masonic bodies, among 
them being that of master of Portland Lodge. 

During the greater portion of the time that he lived in 
Portland he resided with his brother. Besides the family of 
J. B. Cleland, his only other surviving relatives are his sis- 
ter, Mrs. Mary C. Fisher, and family, who reside at Albany. 

Mr. Cleland was a member of the Commercial Club, a 
former member of the board of governors and ex-secretary 
of that organization. H. L. H. 

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When the writer entered the middle prep, class at Beloit 
College, Wis., in September 1870, he first met Cleland, 
then a Senior Prep. He was quite young and possibly home- 
sick, for he withdrew from the school and spent the year 
on his home farm near Janesville, Wis. In the fall of 1871 
he returned and we were Senior Preps together. The next 
fall we entered the freshman class in Beloit College, and 
during the two years there became close friends. 

In my sophomore year at Princeton, I induced Cleland 
to return with me the next year and enter the junior class, 
and for the following two years we were roommates in 37 
Nassau Hall. After leaving Princeton we met but once, 
the week before Thanksgiving in 1876 in Illinois. We kept 
up a frequent correspondence until he went to Portland, 
Oregon, and after that I heard from him but seldom. 

He was a man of integrity and sincerity, of a generous 
nature, and always ready to help his friends. In the great 
revival in Senior year, he united with the Presbyterian 
Church. He was not ready in making friends, but he made 
no enemies, and was well liked by all. Doubtless most of 
the Class remember the strong physique, fine presence, 
pleasant smile, and kindheartedness of Will Cleland. 

In college as afterwards, he had no ambition for lofty 
place, but he was faithful in whatever he did, and accepted 
such honors as might be bestowed upon him by those who 
deemed him worthy. 

The news of his tragic death came as a great shock. I 
sometimes wrote him — 

"Come, dear old comrade, you and I 

Will steal an hour from days gone by ; 
Those lusty days of long ago. 
When you were Bill and I was Joe.'" 

Those days never came, although he was planning to 
attend the Conclave of the Knights Templars held in Den- 

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ver in August, 19 13, when we expected to see each other 
again. But his sword was sheathed ; his knighthood was 
history. 

"Forsan et haec ohm meminisse juvabit." — Virgil. 

H. C. 



REV. ARTHUR BLOOMFIELD CONGER, A.M. 

Father, Abraham Bogert 
Conger, born in New York 
City July 5, 1814, lawyer, 
A.M., M.D., died in New 
York City August 15, 1889. 

Mother, Mary Rutgers 
McCrea, born in New York 
City April 11, 1819, died at 
Waldbry, N. Y., June 9, 
1884. 

Born at Dobbs Ferry, N. 
Y., March 2, 1854. Pre- 
pared at Lawrence ville, N. 
J., and entered Princeton 
in September, 1872. Room- 
ed at 10 East College, mem- 
ber of Whig Hall, standing — third division, 
from Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Married at Trinity Church, Princeton, June 8, 1880, to 
Mary Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton, A.M., Treas- 
urer of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. Their daughter 
Mary Stockton was married January 7, 1912, to Edward 
Thompson Boggs, and they have two children, Arthur Bren- 
ton and Mary Stockton. Katharine Rutgers was married 
to Franklin Taylor Clark June 23, 1917. 

Arthur has been rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, 




Graduated 



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at Woodside, Newark, N. J., of the Memorial Church of 
the Good Shepherd at Rosemont, Pa., from July i, 1883, to 
January i, 1912, and of St. Paul's Church, Centreville, Md., 
from June i, 1913 to May i, 1916, serving the last from De- 
cember 15, 1912, until called to be rector. For twenty-five 
years he was President of the Convocation of Chester, Pa. 
He is the author of Religion for the Time, and of many 
published sermons. 

He writes : "I am no longer able to endure the assidu- 
ous labors of a parish priest and am living quietly in this 
beautiful suburb of Philadelphia — Villa Nova. I had thirty- 
nine years of the active work of the ministry, for which I 
thank God. In the twenty-eight and a half years during 
which I was rector at Rosemont, Pa., I built a very hand- 
some new church of the XIV Century Gothic type, a parish- 
house fully equipped, and, in all, one of the best parishes 
in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. I left it in broken health 
but entirely paid for, with also a delightful and commodious 
rectory. This was my life work." 

ALFRED CHESTER COURSEN, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, William Abram Coursen, born in New York City 
in 1821, married at Morristown, N. J., April 14, 1852, died 
at Morristown in 1896; lawyer, A.B. of the University of 
New York, firm of Raymond and Coursen, then Coursen 
and Coursen. 

Mother, Jane Chester, born at Railway, N. J., June 3, 
1828, died at Morristown, N. J., December 10, 1910. 

Born at Morristown, N. J., December 27, 1854. Pre- 
pared at John Young's School, Elizabeth, N. J., and Law- 
renceville, N. J., entered Princeton in September, 1872. 
Room, 3 South East, member of Clio Hall. At Columbia 
Law School 1876 to 1877. Degree of A.M. from Princeton 
in 1879. Engaged in the practice of law from 1879 to 1902 

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in New York City, was in 
business from 1902 to 1912, 
engaged in editorial writ- 
ing in 1912 and 1913, and 
i n commercial pursuits 
since 1913. 

Married at Englewood, 
N. J., January 12, 1886, to 
Sophie Chester Johns, 
daughter of Thomas Den- 
ton Johns, a graduate of 
West Point and a mining 
engineer. 

In March, 1916, "Billy" 
wrote from Salisbury, Md. 
"Dear General : 

"Your circular has found me in this somewhat retired 
and placid spot, and I am genuinely anxious not to disoblige 
you. But I have never been anything of a statistician, and 
I do not want to furnish untrue data. What am I to do? 
I do not know the date of my own marriage. I will ask 
Mrs. Coursen to help me, but if the result shall be too faulty 
for proper use I must beg of you to discard it. 

"A few years ago I had a very pleasant talk with Bonner, 
who called upon me in my editorial sanctum when I was 
writing the opinions of The Poughkeepsie Star. I enjoyed 
his conversation greatly and was impressed with the cogency 
of his thoughts and the power of their expression. Bonner 
is a thinker — and I do love a thinker. From Poughkeepsie 
I trekked hither, bought three farms and a nice place to 
live on and retired to raising cabbages." 

"Billy" has been the author of many contributions to 
magazines and newspapers. 



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HON. BRYANT OWSLEY COWAN, A.M. 

Father, John Gihnore 
Cowan, born near Somer- 
set, Ky., June 21, 1820, 
married in Andrew County, 
Mo., November 20, 1845, 
farmer and cattle breeder, 
died October 19, 1906. 

Mother, Mary EHzabeth 
Gresham, born at Somerset, 
Ky., July 14, 1828, died at 
Oregon, Mo., January 15, 

1913- 

Born near Fillmore, Mo., 
January 2, 1852. Prepared 
at a private school in Ore- 
gon, Mo., attended Wit- 
tenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, from September, 1870, to 
June, 1873, entered Princeton in the Class of '75 in Septem- 
ber, 1873, lost a year from ill health, and entered '76 for 
senior year. As to standing he writes : "Either T have for- 
gotten' or T refuse to answer' will fit this question." His 
room was 6 South East, he was a member of Clio Hall, 
and won second prize in Senior Debate in Clio. Received 
the degree of A.M. from Highland University, Kansas. 

From 1877 to 1901 he was a farmer and cattle breeder, 
assistant secretary of the American Shorthorn Cattlebreed- 
ers Association in Chicago, Bl., from 1901 to 1913. "Since 
then I have been absorbing California sunshine." 

Member of the Missouri General Assembly from 1878 to 
1880. Member of the Saddle and Sirloin Club of Chicago. 
Author of "Shorthorn Cattle of Missouri." 

Married at Highland, Kansas, November 20, 1878, to 
Mary Julia Nutting, daughter of Lucius Nutting, M.D. 

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Their daughter Cora EHzabeth was married May 24, 1916, 
to Ivan S. Rankin of Oakland, Cahfornia. 

In July, 1916, "B. O." wrote: "In 191 1 I spent five 
months in getting acquainted with a disease of which I 
had never before heard. I emerged from the contest some- 
what like the fellow who had the set-to with Bud Means, 
'considerable shook up like.' I was so knocked out that I 
was forced to give up a job with which I had been quite 
well satisfied for twelve years. So I came to California to 
recuperate and I like it and have concluded to stay." 



SAMUEL CRAIG COWART, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Enoch Lloyd 
Cowart, born at Freehold, 
N. J., February 6, 1807, 
graduated at Lenox Acad- 
emy, Lenox, Mass., mar- 
ried at Freehold June 14, 
1836, in the Civil War 
Quartermaster in the Four- 
teenth New Jersey Volun- 
teers, after the war farmer, 
died at Freehold April 17, 
1889. 

Mother, Anna Maria 
Bowne, daughter of Peter 
Bowne and Amelia Craig, 
born at East Freehold, N. 
J., March 11, 1817, died at Freehold February i, 1898. 

Born at Freehold December 16, 1854. Prepared at Free- 
hold Institute, entered Princeton in September, 1873. Mem- 
ber of Clio Hall. At graduation was on the Honor Roll, 
roomed at 10 South Reunion. On the University Football 
Team for three years, never losing a game, first year beat 




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Yale 3 to o, Rutgers 6 to o, Columbia 6 to o, second year 
beat Columbia 6 to 3, Rutgers 6 to 2 ; director Class Base- 
ball nine; editor of Nassau Lit. and Nassau Herald, Secre- 
tary of Philadelphian Society. Attorney and Counselor at 
Law, Master and Special Master in Chancery. 

Married at Trenton, N. J., April 30, 1891, to Florence 
Salome Shepherd, daughter of Cornelius Shepherd, M.D., a 
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 

'*Sam" is an Elder of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Freehold, Clerk of the Session, Superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school. He was appointed by Governor Fielder to rep- 
resent the State of New Jersey at the Centennial Celebra- 
tion of the Star Spangled Banner at Baltimore in Septem- 
ber, 1914, and read an original poem — "The Starry Ban- 
ner of the Free" — at the unveiling of the portrait of Francis 
Scott Key in the Municipal Building at Baltimore. 

Honors or public positions : Vice-president of the New 
Jersey Society of Sons of the American Revolution, Vice- 
President of the Monmouth Chapter of Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, Chairman of the General Committee on the 
Celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Anni- 
versary of the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1903, orator 
at Tennent, N. J., at the Reception to Members of Wash- 
ington Pilgrimage on the Battle Ground of Monmouth, 
June 24, 1914, Director of the Freehold Golf and Country 
Club. 

He is the author of an address on The Battle of Mon- 
mouth, and of many poems, among them Patriot Sires of 
Monmouth, The Starry Banner of the Free, Memoir of 
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and The Lesson of the Rain. 

BRODIE JACKMAN CRAWFORD, A.M. Died July 27, 
1883. [See Record No. IV, page 39.] 



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HON. CLARENCE CUNINGHAM, LL.B. 

Father, John Ciining- 
ham, born November 23, 
1818, at his grandfather 
Bird's on Shoals of Ogee- 
chee, Ga., at the time of a 
short visit of his mother to 
her parental home ; entered 
Princeton College, but the 
severe climate brought on 
asthma and other complica- 
tions and he had to leave 
almost immediately. He 
then entered the University 
of Georgia at Athens. 

Married, by Rev. Mr. 
Barr, in the town of Ab- 
beville, on November 19, 1839. He was a lawyer, practiced 
at Abbeville and Charleston; editor in Charleston, S. C, and 
owned the paper ; a colonel in the militia of South Carolina ; 
political writer and statesman ; served in the State Legisla- 
ture, ethical writer ; by inheritance and general supervision 
a "planter" on his paternal estates. He was taught by and 
at the school of Dr. Moses Waddell, a celebrated school- 
master and Presbyterian divine; John C. Calhoun, George 
McDuffie, Governor Patrick Noble, and many other distin- 
guished men were taught at the school of Dr. Waddell. In 
1861, at the beginning of the war between the States, he was 
Brigadier General and Commanding General of the Arsenal 
at Charleston; died at his ancestral home, Rosemonte 
Manor, Laurens County, S. C, March 10, 1893, and there 
his body is buried in the family graveyard. 

Mother, Floride Colhoun Noble, born at her father's 
home town of Abbeville, S. C, August 7, 1819, daughter of 



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Governor Patrick Noble of South Carolina and Elizabeth 
Bonneau (Pickens) Noble, died August 14, 1871, at the home 
of her son-in-law, Charles H. Banks, "Rosebanks," near 
Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va. ; her body is buried in 
the family graveyard at Rosemonte Manor ; educated at the 
South Carolina Female Institute, Barhamville, near Colum- 
bia, S. C, by Dr. Elias Marks and his wife, nee Pierrepont, 
of the Vermont family of Pierreponts, in ante bellum days 
a celebrated school, where the prominent and wealthy fami- 
lies of the State educated their daughters. 

Born January 20, 1854, at Charleston, S. C, is of the 
"Craigends" branch of the Scotch family Cunninghame and 
by patent spells its name Cuningham. 

"I learnt A, B, C"s at Morris Street public school, Charles- 
ton, S. C, though of aristocratic birth and association, and 
that class did not patronize the public schools of that day ; 
my father believed them to be much better than even the 
best private schools so sent his younger children to them ; 
the war came on and my sister, Elizabeth Pickens Cuning- 
ham, taught me spelling and reading ; then Miss E. O. El- 
liott, of wealth and aristocratic birth, but war impoverished, 
carried me on a little further — we had moved from Charles- 
ton and were living in the little village of Cokesbury ; I then 
attended an old field school taught by a poor woman, widow 
of a Confederate soldier, next the village school, first taught 
by a Mr. Watson, then taken by Mr. William Smith, who 
afterwards became Chief Justice of Arkansas. Then for 
nearly three months I attended the Holy Communion School 
of Charleston, founded and maintained under difficulties 
and begging by the Rev. A. T. Porter, of said city, for the 
sons of former w^ell-to-do and cultured families. Then I 
was taught in Cokesbury by a Mr. Wm. Christie Benet, a 
distinguished graduate of Edinburgh, Scotland, who mi- 
grated to this State. He afterwards became a Circuit 

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Judge. I then went to Newark, N. J. and was taught for a 
short time at school by one Shier, a Scotchman, then given 
private lessons by a Mr. Bohler, and in the autumn of 1872 
I entered Princeton College in the class that graduated in 
1876 ; standing in class towards the middle ; member of 
Cliosophic Society. Took my meals at a club presided over 
by McClure '74; I first occupied Room i. West College, 
then 13 North College, now a part of the museum. With 
Wni. Allen Butler I took the Boudinot Historical Fellow- 
ship in 1876-77. 

"In October, 1876, I went to Leipzig, Germany, entered 
immediately the University of Leipzig and heard lectures 
from Dr. von Windschied, Dr. jur. A. Schmidt, and Dr. 
Roscher. 

"While a student in Leipzig I gave lessons in English to 
Professors' wives and daughters, also English and philology 
to German students. Li 1879 I went to Switzerland for 
three months during the summer ; after walking and riding 
for a short time, sightseeing, I settled in Nyon, on Lake 
Geneva, and gave private lessons in English. In October 
I went to Paris, France, and for nearly two years mixed 
with French society, studied the French language and his- 
tory and gave English lessons. 

"In 1881 I returned to America, and while visiting Rose- 
monte Manor for a little while each year, I resided in New 
York City, and taught for a short time in Harlem, element- 
ary Greek, Latin, German and French, at the school of one 
Fay. I then confined myself to giving private lessons in 
New York City in English, German, French and made a 
success of it. I returned to Charleston, S. C, in the sum- 
mer of 1885 ; read law with the Hon. James Simons, of the 
law firm of Simons and Siegling; was admitted to the Bar 
of South Carolina, May 25, 1886. With my father prac- 
ticed law a short time ; gave all along private lessons, and 

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threw myself into city and State politics. In 1893-95 I 
was a member of the County Board of Examiners for 
Charleston County, and again in 1895-97; in 1894 I was 
appointed by Gov. R. B. Tillman, School Commissioner for 
Charleston County; in 1895 was appointed by Gov. John G. 
Evans, Treasurer of Charleston County; in 1898 was ap- 
pointed by Gov. Ellerby Commissioner of Federal Elec- 
tions ; in 1894 was appointed by Gov. R. B. Tillman, Com- 
missioner of Elections for Charleston County. I ran three 
times for the State Legislature but was defeated each time. 

"Every year I visited Rosemonte Manor, the seat in Lau- 
rens County of the family Cuningham. Since 1904, I re- 
turned to reside on the Rosemonte Estates, built on my por- 
tion of said estate, the portion left me by my late aunt, 
Miss A. P. Cuningham, organizer and First Regent of the 
Mt. Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, a small house 
of seven rooms and two halls, and named said portion of the 
estate 'Craigends.' 

"Since my return to Laurens County I have run three 
times for the State Legislature but was defeated each time 
by the general ignorance and prejudice of the backwoods 
voters against an ante-bellum aristocrat; one-horse politi- 
cians half educated, and sharp, of course joined them. 

"Though of aristocratic descent and rearing, by inclina- 
tion and family traditions ever since we have been in this 
country we and I have been democrats pure and simple, 
and believe from the ground up in equal rights and privi- 
leges to none. 

"Ever since my return to the manor, I have managed my 
estate and, latterly, the estates of various members of the 
family. Plantation life being now entirely changed, I do 
not pretend to, and cannot, lead the life of an old time 
Southern Planter, but lead the life of a cracker farmer, an 
unassuming, honest and earnest life. One of my most satis- 

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factory reminiscences is my fight against local prejudice 
and ignorance, and another my fight against that most hypo- 
critical and hidden institution — Prohibition. I detest the 
open bar-room but advocate the whiskey trade to be under 
the strictest police regulations and State supervision. Have 
written various political newspaper articles, etc." 

In May, 1916, he wrote: "Divers reasons prevent my 
accepting the invitation to be present at the Class Reunion, 
especially the planting interests of my own estate and the 
family estates I hold in trust. Further I am in very poor 
health and have been since an attack of uremia of some five 
or six years ago. When I can get away it must not be to 
a hot, dusty place like Princeton, but either to the North 
Carolina Blue Ridge or to the surf-bathing of Sullivan's 
Island on our own coast. My best wishes to my classmates." 

The Atlanta Journal of April 25, 1917, contained an in- 
terview with Cuningham, who was in Atlanta attending the 
opera, in which he said in part : "I love the German people, 
for they are a wonderful people, but I abhor and despise 
the German emperor and all his military caste. The Ger- 
mans are the best educated people in the world, they are 
kindly, obedient, thorough in all their undertakings. But 
they are dominated by the most autocratic, the most ambi- 
tious, the most ruthless and cruel government of modern 
times. 

"Our high mission in this war is to free the German peo- 
ple from the slavery of their own government. Into this 
undertaking we are led by the greatest of all American 
Presidents, a man whose heart is in tune with the heart of 
all humanity, a man whose influence in the affairs of na- 
tions is destined to make this an era in world history — the 
Wilson era." 

To which, in a personal note, Clarence adds of Wilson : 
"He is today the governing mind of the world and has made 

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Washington the world capital No fuller, more complete 
and greater man has ever been created." 



HON. HENRY EDGAR DAVIS, A.M., LL.B., LL.M., 
LL.D. 

Father, Henry Spalding 
Davis, born in Charles 
County, Maryland, April 3, 
1 8 14, married in Washing- 
ton, D. C, December 19, 
1850. He never attended 
college and had no aca- 
demic degrees, and was en- 
gaged in business. He died 
in Washington, D. C, April 
15, 1891. 

Mother, Mary Eliza Gait, 
born in Alexandria, Vir- 
ginia (then within the Dis- 
trict of Columbia), No- 
vember 20, 1823, died in 
Washington, D. C, December 13, 1872. 

Born in Washington, D. C, March 15, 1855. Prepared at 
Everett Institute. W'ashington, D. C, Edward W. Farley, 
Principal, and Emerson Institute, Washington, D. C, 
Charles B. Young, Principal. Entered Princeton in Sep- 
tember, 1872. Standing, in the Honor List. Lit. Editor, 
Second Freshman Declamation prize in Whig Hall, Junior 
Orator, MacLean prizeman, Lynde Prize Debater ; Presen- 
tation Orator at Class Day. Class President in sophomore 
year. Chief Marshal at the sophomore burial. Member of 
Whig Hall; roomed at 13 North West. 

At the Harvard Law School 1876-7; Law School of Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) University, Washing- 

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ton, D. C, 1877-9. Received the degree of A.M. at Prince- 
ton 1879 ; of LL.B. at Columbian University, Washington, 
D. C, 1878; LL.M., same, 1879; LL.D. at National Uni- 
versity, Washington, D. C, 1902. 

Married in Washington, D. C, January 17, 1882, to Har- 
riet Williams Riddle, daughter of Albert Gallatin Riddle, 
lawyer, no academic degrees. During a portion of the Civil 
War, he represented the Cleveland, Ohio, District in the 
House of Representatives, was afterward Consul General 
of the United States at Matanzas, Cuba. On his return 
from that post he settled in Washington, where he spent the 
rest of his life. He was for seventeen years attorney for 
the Municipal Corporation, the District of Columbia, and 
was a writer of note, among his best known productions 
being Bart Ridgley and The Portrait, novels dealing with 
life in the Western Reserve of Ohio, and a book of Recol- 
lections, covering events leading up to and during the Civil 
War, and including much interesting biographical matter 
concerning himself and the public men of his day. 

*T began the practice of law September 25, 1879, being 
on that day admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of 
the District of Columbia. On October 18, 1882, T was ad- 
mitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, on the occasion of having my first case in that court. 
In July, 1885, I became Assistant Attorney of the Munici- 
pality, the District of Columbia, (the designation of the 
office now being Assistant Corporation Counsel), which po- 
sition I occupied until October, 1889, when I resigned. In 
March, 1897, I became United States Attorney for the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, retaining the office until October i, 1899, 
when I resigned. I have since neither held nor aspired to 
public office of any kind, although in 1899 I might have 
been made a Justice of the Supreme Court of the District 
of Columbia, which position — for business and personal 

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reasons — I could not at the time see my way properly to 
accept. 

"In addition to my usual professional positions and duties, 
I was President of the Bar Association of the District of 
Columbia for two successive terms, and for fifteen years, 
beginning with October, 1889, I was a lecturer and profes- 
sor in the law schools of the Columbian, now George Wash- 
ington, University, and the National University, both of this 
city, which latter institution, in 1902, conferred upon me 
the degree of LL.D. During my career in the law schools, 
I taught, at various times, Mercantile Law, the Law of 
Corporations, Common Law Pleading, Common Law Prac- 
tice, Equity Pleading, and Evidence, and I delivered for a 
time annually, and afterwards at intervals, a course of lec- 
tures of my own upon the History of Law. I am pleased 
to be particularly remembered by those under me for this 
course of lectures and my teaching of the Law of Evidence, 
to which, in the closing years of my connection with the 
National University, I devoted myself exclusively. 

"I have written a number of articles on professional sub- 
jects, some of them of transitory interest only, but some on 
subjects of permanent historical interest, such as Origin and 
Development of Actions for Loss of Service, and the Es- 
tate by Courtesy, each of which I have had the pleasure of 
seeing judicially cited. Also, I wrote and circulated in 
pamphlet form a paper, prompted by consideration of the 
matter incident to the death of President Garfield, on In- 
ability of the President and the Discharge of his Duties 
during the Continuance thereof, which also received flatter- 
ing attention. And in 1897 I read before the legal section 
of the American Bar Association, at Cleveland, Ohio, a 
paper, historical in character, on Primitive Legal Concep- 
tions in relation to Modern Law, which, in addition to being 
preserved in the records of the Association, received the 

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compliment of independent publication in one of the law 
magazines. In 1899, ^ read before the Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences, by its request, a paper on the Historical 
Development of the District of Columbia, which received 
the compliment of being afterwards published as a Senate 
Document, and subsequently I wrote a somewhat similar 
paper on The Workshop of the Nation, being the District 
of Columbia, which received the like compliment." 

"Jeff" is a member of the Metropolitan, Cosmos and 
Chevy Chase Clubs and of the Society of Medical Juris- 
prudence. 

"The question 'What do I owe to Princeton, etc.'? is a 
poser. I feel that I owe so much, in both volume and di- 
versity, that the question taxes my sense of proportion. 

"Perhaps I should put first the inspiration derived from 
my association with the faculty of our day, and the influ- 
ence thereof, from a most grateful appreciation of which I 
have never been free. Not to be invidious, I should say that 
Drs. McCosh, Alexander, Guyot, Shields and Atwater I 
hold in especially revered memory ; and I do not deem it 
extravagant to say that I do not believe that any institution 
of learning ever offered its students such a combination as 
the first three named. Guyot, with the Earth, Alexander, 
with the Heavens, and McCosh, with the Human Mind and 
the Universe of Spirit added to the two, for their respective 
themes, it would, I am sure, be impossible to match. 

"To Dr. Atwater I owe the training in the forms of right 
thinking which I do not feel that I could have got from 
another, and to Dr. Shields I owe my interest in the study 
of the essentials and meaning of Civilization, which has at- 
tended me throughout my reading since my college days ; 
and it may not be uninteresting to add that in the first year 
following my graduation I assiduously reread and restudied 
Atwater's Logic, Guizot's History of Civilization and Hal- 

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lam's Constitutional History, to which I had been introduced 
by those indicated. 

"Drs. McCosh, Guyot and Alexander presented to me 
particularly the problem of so aligning religious faith with 
the physical history of the Universe and the history and 
progress of human thought as to evoke my keenest interest 
in the study, to which my experience at Princeton led me, 
of the history of Man and his institutions, his origin and 
his destiny. 

"It will be remembered that at the time our Class entered 
Princeton, namely, in the fall of 1872, the oft -mentioned 
Warfare of Science and Religion was at perhaps its most 
acute stage, and that the teachings of Darwin, Tyndall, 
Huxley and Spencer had just begun to make an elTective 
impression on the thought of this country, only recently 
relieved from its engrossment by the intensely practical and 
stirring questions of our political situation of the two pre- 
ceding decades, and that Dr. McCosh's attitude towards 
those teachings was quite unique, his position in the world 
of Philosophy and as a clergyman of the Presbyterian 
Church naturally leading anyone to expect to find in him 
a stern and relentless antagonist of what, at the time, was 
most appropriately termed The New Thought ; and I have 
always accounted it one of his chief distinctions that he 
approached this Thought as he did : saying, it will be re- 
called, that it was either sound or unsound; if the former, 
that it should be accepted, if the latter, that it should be re- 
futed, but in either case that it must be taught. In addi- 
tion to his own personality, the natural result of liis studies 
and intellectual and spiritual inclinations, and his position 
in the world of thought above indicated, he had as his col- 
leagues those whom I have mentioned, Guyot ?nd Alex- 
ander, each of whom, though profoundly learned in his 
particular field of study, was a devoted and unshakable 

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Christian ; and I doubt if anywhere or at any time was there 
another such instance presented in the history of an insti- 
tution having in charge the training and incUning of the 
youthful mind. 

"Not to extend consideration of the matter, it may suthce 
to say that I left Princeton with the most prominent and 
dominant attitude of my mind that which had been created 
by the influence to which I point ; and, as above suggested, 
I am to this day under the spell of that influence, which I 
can truthfully and happily say has given me inspiration and 
exaltation, both mental and spiritual, and save for the in- 
evitable incident of temporary disturbance, amounting at 
times quite to distress, in working myself away from my 
early predilections and convictions (so far as it may be 
said that I had the latter), the net result has been to me 
one of unqualified hopefulness, cheerfulness and confidence 
towards 'the one far-ofii^, divine event.' 

"It must not be thought that I am unappreciative of, or 
have been unaft'ected by, the other instructors whom it was 
our good fortune to have, or the teachings received at their 
hands, but my outlook upon life, and the optimism with 
which it is charged, I distinctly owe to those first indicated. 
The mental training and equipment added to by the others, 
and the intellectual discipline which I owe them, are, in 
paraphrase of the expression of another, rather the alchemy 
than of the substance of a practical life — to be compared to 
the extraction of the precious ores, which, in Horace's 
phrase as applied to silver, 'Have no color while hid in the 
earth.' 

"Nor would I pass without notice my training in Whig 
Hall, which I have always regarded as having been of the 
highest service to me, especially as respects the practical 
utilization of what I may be supposed to have acquired in 
the way of knowledge. I have devoted my life since leav- 

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ing college primarily to the law, notoriously a jealous mis- 
tress, but I have read and studied widely and, I hope, profit- 
ably, the higher matters about which, in the happy expres- 
sion of Clodd, 'the spirit of man, like planet tethered to sun, 
revolves by irresistible attraction' ; and I venture to think 
that, for one who has been so busy with the demands of 
an exacting profession, my excursions into the fields of 
anthropology and the history and development of human 
institutions have been beyond the ordinary, and that I owe. 
it to Princeton that I have been able to make these ex- 
cursions without unsettling the 

" 'trust that somehow Good 
Will be the final goal of 111.' " 



BISHOP COLLINS DENNY, A.M., LL.B., DD., LL.D. 

Father, William R. Den- 
ny, born in Frederick 
County, Va., February 4, 
1823; President of Win- 
chester Paper Company, of 
the American Strawboard 
Paper Association, and of 
the Winchester and Poto- 
mac Railroad. Died on the 
Vanderbilt University 
Campus, Nashville, Tenn., 
December 4, 1904, buried 
in Winchester, Va. 

Mother, Margaret Ann 
Collins, born in George- 
town, D. C, May 24, 1822, 

died on Vanderbilt University Campus, May 5, 1893, buried 

in Winchester. 

Born in Winchester, May 28, 1854. Prepared at Shenan- 

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doah Valley Academy, Winchester, entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Was a Commencement orator at gradu- 
ation ; room, 18 North West. Captain of Class football 
team all four years, captain of University team 1875-6. 
Lynde Prize Debater, 3>. B. K. The University of Virginia 
also elected him a member of *. B. K. on his work there. 

Entered the Law Department of the University of Vir- 
ginia in 1876 and received the degree of LL.B. in 1877. In 
1889 he entered the Academic Department of the University 
of Virginia, and received diplomas in Philosophy, English 
Literature and Rhetoric, in Anglo Saxon and Middle 
English. 

Received the degree of D.D. from Emory and Henry 
College, from Randolph-Macon College and from Washing- 
ton and Lee University ; the degree of LL.D. from Emory 
and Henry College, Virginia, and from Emory College, 
Georgia, both in 1910. 

The "Colonel" practiced law in Baltimore from Septem- 
ber, 1877 to November 1879. He entered the ministry of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Baltimore Confer- 
ence, in 1880; served in the pastorate from 1880 to 1889, 
was Chaplain to the University of Virginia from 1889 to 
1891, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Vander- 
bilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1891 to 1910. He visited 
the Asiatic Missions by Episcopal appointment in 1886-7, 
going around the world ; was acting-secretary of the Gen- 
eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 
in 1894, member of five General Conferences, leading the 
delegation in the last four, member of the Book Committee 
of the M. E. Church, South, from 1894 to 1910, chairman 
of that Committee from 1898 to 1910. He was elected 
Bishop in 1910 by the largest vote ever received on the 
first ballot. 

Married in Baltimore, Md., July 5, 1881, to Lucy Chase 

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Chapman, daughter of Allen A. Chapman, a wholesale cof- 
fee and sugar shipper and merchant. Of their children 
three are married, and to them have been given seven chil- 
dren, of whom two have died. 

Collins has been a contributor to the Library of Southern 
Literature, to the Methodist Review of Nashville, and to the 
periodicals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ; he 
is the author of The Validity of Christian Experience, 1901. 

"May 30, 1916. 
"My dear General : 

"I am just back from Key West, Fla., and find your 
circular on my desk. I regret that my engagements will 
not permit me to be present at the Reunion. I have never 
had the pleasure of meeting with the class since we parted 
in '76. For twenty years my work at Vanderbilt University 
kept me at the Commencement there, and since I have been 
in this hard office, I spend most of my time roaming over 
the country, trying to care for a great and growing Church. 

"With love to every member of the old Class, and with 
best wishes for yourself, I am, 

"Truly yours, 

"Collins Denny." 



REV. ELLIOTT LAWRENCE DRESSER, A.M. 

Father, Cephas Beach Dresser, born at Paris, N. Y., Sep- 
tember 22, 181 3, lawyer, admitted to the bar at Saline, 
Michigan, died August 3, 1887, at Hillsdale, Mich. 

Mother, Catherine Amelia Lawrence, born at Geneseo, 
N. Y., December 16, 1817, died April 21, 1905, in Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Born at CaUfornia, Branch County, Mich., May 21, 1849. 
Prepared at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., and at 
Hightstown Academy, Hightstown, N. J., entered college in 

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September, 1872. Stand- 
ing, about the middle of the 
class ; roomed in 36 North 
College in freshman and 
sophomore years, in 8 
South East afterward. 
Member of Clio Hall. Class 
orator at exercises around 
the cannon at the close of 
freshman year. Graduated 
from Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1879. Pas- 
tor of the Congregational 
Church of Shopiere, Wis., 
from 1879 to 1883 ; of 
Presbyterian Churches at 

Huron, Ohio, 1883 to 1885; at Diana, S. D., 1885 to 1890; 
at Canton, S. D., 1890 to 1892 ; at Flandreau, in 1892 to 1896, 
at Divernon, 111., 1896 to 1902. Resided at Oberlin, 
Ohio, 1902 to 1904; at Ithaca, N. Y., since 1904, having 
charge of Presbyterian churches at Genoa and Five Cor- 
ners. 

Married at Mechanicsville, Iowa, November 22, 1881, to 
Genevieve Tyler, daughter of George Tyler, wholesale mer- 
chant. Two of their five children are married, and there is 
one grandchild. 

Elliott attended the Reunion of 1916, and after it wrote: 
'T had a wonderfully good time and am glad I went." He 
adds, "My son Ivan took first place in the Interscholastic 
Cross Country Race in 191 5, and won the mile race in the 
Penn-Cornell Freshman Track Meet in 1916." 

Elliott is a member of the Cornell University Club and 
of the Men's Club of the Ithaca Presbyterian Church. 



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JOHN FLETCHER DUFFIELD, A.M., M.D., died of 
heart failure on March 14, 191 2, and was buried in Prince- 
ton. He was born December 9, 1857, the son of Prof. John 
Thomas Duffield, D.D., and Sarah Ehzabeth (Green) Duf- 
field. Preparing in Princeton he entered college in Septem- 
ber, 1872, the youngest in the class with one exception. His 
brilliant mind made it easy for him to maintain a good 
standing, his charming social qualities rendered him a great 
favorite, and in athletics he was a member of his Class foot- 
ball team, of the Class nine, and of the University nine, one 
of Princeton's most famous left-fielders. 

After graduation John took a post-graduate course at 
Princeton for a year, then entered the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York City, graduating thence in May, 
1880, with high honors, receiving the Harsen Clinical (first) 
Prize of $150, a medal and diploma for "the best report in 
writing of the clinical instruction given at the New York 
Hospital from October 1880 to March 1881." Obtaining 
an appointment on the house staiT of the Presbyterian Hos- 
pital, he served there for two years. 

November 21, 1882, he was married in New York City 
to Miss Margaret Cecil Wall, daughter of the Rev. Thomas 
G. Wall. An attack of typhoid fever in the summer of 
1882 left John in poor health and he and Mrs. Duffield spent 
the following winter in the South. On their return he be- 
gan the practice of medicine in New York City, and be- 
came examining physician to the Presbyterian Hospital and 
attending physician to the Out-Door Department of the 
New York Foundling Asylum, the largest institution of its 
kind, with a single exception, in the world. In 1884 on 
account of ill health he removed from New York to East 
Orange, N. J., and there was visiting physician to the East 
Orange Hospital. He wrote editorials, book reviews, etc., 
for the Medical Record, American Druggist and other pro- 

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fessional publications, was a member of the New York 
County Medical Society, the New York Pathological So- 
ciety, Essex County Medical Society, and the Orange Moun- 
tain Medical Society. 

All will recall John's charming humor, exhibited in his 
History of the Class, in the earlier Class Records and the 
poems he wrote for Reunions. During his professional 
life, in addition to his more serious writings, he contributed 
what he called "limp verses" to Life and similar publica- 
tions. Declining health, however, prevented the fulfillment 
of the brilliant promise of his youth and early manhood 
and in the fall of 1888 he was forced to give up all prac- 
tice of his profession, continuing an invalid until his death. 
Few men of the Class inspired a warmer affection than he 
and his withdrawal from the activities of life caused deep- 
est sorrow and sympathy. 

Mrs. Duffield and two children survive, George Barry 
Duffield, Princeton '04, Principal of the High School at 
Victor, Colorado, and Elizabeth Green Fletcher Duffield, 
Smith College 'II. H. L. H. 



FRANK DUNNING, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Benjamin Franklin Dunning, born at Ridgebury, 
N. Y., in 1819, married at Goshen, N. Y., in 1850, lawyer; 
O'Connor, Fullerton and Dunning, Dunning, Edsall, Hart 
and Fowler, graduate of Union College, died in New York 
City in 1893. 

Mother, Ruth Seeley, born in 1828 in Orange County, 
N. Y., died in 1890 in California. 

Born in New York City September 23, 1854. Prepared 
at Edgehill School, Princeton, N. J., and entered Princeton 
in 1872. Member of Whig Hall and Z *, roomed in 14 
South East College. Member of University Glee Club, of 

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the Class Day Committee, 
Class Football Twenty, 
President and Secretary of 
the University Baseball As- 
sociation. After graduation 
spent the next two years at 
Columbia Law School and 
received his LL.B. in 1878. 
In 1879 Princeton gave 
him the A.M. degree. He 
is not married. Further 
he reports that he is a 
lawyer and a member of 
the University Club of 
New York. 



RICHARD ARTHUR EDWARDS, A.M. 

Father, Richard 




Ed- 



wards, born at Aberyst- 
with, Wales, in December, 
1822, died at Bloomington, 
111., in 1907. 

Mother, Betsey Josslyn 
Samson, born at Plymouth, 
Mass., February 25, 1825, 
and still living. Prepared 
at the Illinois State Nor- 
mal University High 
School, and entered Prince- 
ton in 1874. He was a 
member of Clio Hall, 
roomed in town. 

Married at Peru, Ind., 



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January i, 1880, to Mary Alice Shirk, daughter of Elbert 
H. Shirk, A.M., banker. 

After graduation he was Professor of English Literature 
and Rhetoric at Knox College, Galesburg, III, until July i, 
i88i. He is a banker, President of the First National Bank 
of Peru, Ind. Member of the University Club of Chicago, 
and of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis. 

He reports three grandchildren, Richard Arthur Edwards, 
Elizabeth Aitkin Campbell and Mary Alice Campbell. 



THOMAS IRELAND ELLIOTT, A.M., LL.B., LL.D., a 
Judge of the Supreme 
Court of Baltimore City 
for nine years, died of 
heart disease at his home 
December 5, 191 5. While 
traveling abroad in the 
summer of 1913 he had an 
attack of pneumonia, but 
he recovered sufficiently to 
be able to resume his duties 
on the bench, and he con- 
tinued to perform them 
until less than two weeks 
before he passed away. 
Funeral services were held 
at Judge Elliott's residence 
on December 7, on which day there was no session of the 
Supreme Bench, and many Judges of the different courts 
attended in a body, acting as honorary pall-bearers. Ar- 
rangements were made for a memorial session of the bench 
and bar in honor of Judge Elliott to be held at a later date. 
Thomas Ireland Elliott was born in Baltimore Decem- 




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ber 25, 1855, the son of Prof. William Elliott, long con- 
nected with the Baltimore City College, and Rosannah 
Bunting, both natives of Baltimore and descendants of early- 
English settlers. Educated in the public schools, "Tom" 
entered the Baltimore City College and in 1874 came to 
Princeton. After graduation he entered a law office in 
Baltimore, attended the law school of the University of 
Maryland, and was graduated with high honors in 1878. 
In June of the same year he was admitted to practice. In 
1879 he received the degree of A.M. from Princeton. 
Washington College gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws 
a few years ago. His practice at the bar soon became im- 
portant and he became known as an upright lawyer, the 
upholder of righteous causes and the determined foe of 
evil-doers. He made a lasting name for himself when he 
was made counsel by appointment under an ordinance of 
the City Council for the Council Investigating Committee 
of 1894 and 1895. In the spring of 1896 the Mayor ap- 
pointed him City Solicitor. In November, 1906, he was 
elected to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore on the Repub- 
lican ticket. Here he effectively discharged his duties and 
won the esteem of his fellow judges, who praised him for 
his courage, his fearlessness and his general independence 
in everything he undertook. The Baltimore Sun says: 
"Judge Elliott often declared that he made it an iron-clad 
rule to listen to every word of the evidence. In explain- 
ing the way he arrived at decisions, he once said : 

" T weigh the evidence I hear ; not with my brain, for 
then I might let technicalities interfere with justice; not 
with my heart, for I might let my sympathies sway me. I 
judge men with my conscience. I impose penalties that my 
conscience tells me the crime demands.' 

"He would not brook interference with a case he had in 
hand, and this became generally known to all those who 

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faced him as attorneys. He always was courteous and af- 
fable, buti he had the highest respect for the law and de- 
manded similar respect from all before him. 

''J^idge Elliott spent the greater part of his time out of 
court reading and traveling. He was a member of the Uni- 
versity and Maryland Clubs, the Maryland Historical So- 
ciety, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of Colon- 
ial Wars, Society of the War of 1812, a member of the 
Masons, Royal Arcanum and the Odd Fellows." An edi- 
torial from the same paper adds these words of high com- 
mendation : 

"■Judge Thomas Ireland Elliott was a man of such vigo- 
rous personality that he sometimes appeared restive in the 
judicial atmosphere of the courtroom. Sometimes, those 
who disagreed with him about the law or the evidence used 
to think he was eager to act as jury as well as judge. This 
is only another way of saying that, like an increasing num- 
ber of jurists and a vast number of laymen, he was oc- 
casionally impatient with the technicalities of the law and 
sought for a deeper justice underlying the forms of justice. 

"That he did seek for this deeper justice; that his bias, 
if he had any, was toward truth and the right, against evil 
and the wrong, no one who knew him had ever the slight- 
est doubt. He had a really noble desire to serve the State 
and he was fearless in his efforts to do so. His restiveness 
showed itself particularly in connection with political offen- 
ses, and it was a well-appreciated fact about the Court 
House that any man found guilty of election crimes would 
meet with little mercy at his hands. 

"In a day when political machines are dominant it was a 
refreshing thing to have such a judge on the bench, and 
a great many citizens felt a little more comfortable in the 
knowledge that Judge Elliott was there. In a day of gen- 
eral conformity and conventionalism it was refreshing to 

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meet with a man of his independence and fearlessness. For 
these reasons he will be missed." 

Judge Elliott is survived by his wife, who was Miss 
Corine Bruce Vickers, and a daughter. In April, 1916, Mrs. 
Elliott wrote : "Princeton has always meant so much to 
him and we were expecting to come to the Reunion this 
June." In June 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott were in Prince- 
ton, having been married but a few days before, and at- 
tended the Yale game, afterward dining at the Inn with 
members of the Class and their wives. Tom's happy, witty, 
brilliant speeches at our dinners in 1896 and 1901 will be 
recalled by all who heard them, and that his engagements 
prevented his attending more Reunions was undoubtedly a 
source of as great regret to him as it was to those who were 
able to be present. H. L. H. 



EDWARD CHARLES EVANS, A.M., D.D., attended the 

Reunion of 1901 and en- 
joyed its renewal of inti- 
macies as much as any of 
the Class who were pres- 
ent at it. On October 23, 
1912, he died at his home 
in Remsen, N. Y., of myo- 
carditis, his health having 
begun to fail several 
months before. Born near 
Wrexham, Wales, the son 
of Edward and Sarah 
(Jones) Evans, October 
29, 1844, he was within six 
days of his sixty-eighth 
birthday; he was also the 
'76. At the age of sixteen 




oldest member of the Class of 



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he made a public confession of his faith in the Welsh Cal- 
vinistic Methodist Church of Wrexham. Quite early in 
life he went to work in the coal mines near his home, and 
when he came to America in 1869 he settled in Pennsylvania 
and followed the same occupation. He had a thirst for 
knowledge and made full use of his opportunities. He 
overcame many obstacles, prepared for college at the Van 
Rensselaer Institute of Hightstown, N. J., and entered 
Princeton in September, 1872. At graduation he won the 
Classical Fellowship and studied for a year at Oxford. The 
next year he preached in a Welsh church at Shenandoah, 
Pa., entered the Princeton Seminary in 1878, and remained 
for one year. In April, 1878, he was ordained, was pastor 
of the Welsh Presbyterian church of Shenandoah, Pa., 1878 
to 1879, of the Welsh church of Remsen, N. Y., from 1879 
to 1882, of the Welsh church of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 
1882 to 1886. He then returned to Remsen, N. Y., and 
supplied the Welsh church there until his death. In 19 10 
Hamilton College conferred on him the degree of D.D. Dr.^ 
Evans published several sermons and lectures in the Welsh 
language, and the biography and sermons of Rev. William 
Roberts, D.D., of Utica, N. Y. He was the editor and 
proprietor of The Cambrian, an English magazine for 
Welsh- Americans, from 1887 to 1897. 

Following is an extract from The Utica Daily Press of 
October 24, 1912. 

"In later years Dr. Evans had spent his life quietly at his 
home in Remsen, preaching as occasion demanded, and 
rendering such other helpful service, whether public or 
private, as he was called upon. He never retired in the 
common acceptance of that term, but was always busy. He 
spent much of his time in his library, where to the last he 
pursued his researches and studies. He was deeply inter- 
ested in philology. When he conducted The Cambrian he 

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wrote a series of articles on this subject that bhowed that 
he had made deep researches in that department of investi- 
gation. The origin of languages had great fascination for 
him, especially the origin of the Welsh language, and he 
had accumulated a collection of rare and valuable books on 
that subject. It is understood that he contemplated pub- 
lishing the result of his labors in this field, and it is to be 
hoped that he may have left manuscripts in such form that 
they may be later utilized. 

'*Dr. Evans' interests were wide in scope, :ind he kept 
fully abreast of the times. He was informed upon the 
latest developments of science, and he read and studied 
politics with deep interest. A minister of the gospel, his 
main interest was theological and religious, and he had the 
point of view of the moralist and the Christian. He was 
always a staunch defender of the right as he conceived it, 
and he always labored for the triumph of correct ideas, 
and whatever made for the elevation of the people. In the 
Welsh community there were few better known in this 
country, especially among Welsh Presbyterians. He was 
active in the affairs of his denomination and was regarded 
by the laity and the ministry as one of their ablest and most 
substantial members. As a preacher he was profound 
rather than popular, and his sermons were doctrinal in 
character, although he never failed in pointing out the 
practical duties of life in its various activities. His appeal 
mainly was to the intellectually strong. During his life he 
so demeaned himself in conduct and action, as well as word, 
that he had perfected a character such as gave him promi- 
nence among his fellows and general recognition as a man 
of ability and probity. Calm and respectful in manner, his 
lifq was one of dignity and honor. 

"His public efforts here at home in recent years had been 
mainly along cultural lines, and he took much interest in 

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the village library. He was one of the founders of the in- 
stitution and its treasurer from the outset. The public 
school and its welfare was also a matter in which he mani- 
fested much concern. He had a host of friends in this 
community, and although he did not hold pastoral relation 
at present with the local church, he was still pastor and 
friend to many of the people. He was ever ready to aid 
and counsel in trouble and he filled the double place of 
minister and citizen in the community. 

"In November, 1882, he married Elizabeth R. Richards 
of Remsen. They had two sons. Dr. Edward R. Evans, 
who resides in Utica, and Arthur L. Evans, whose home is 
in this village. Some time after the death of his first wife, 
he was married to Elizabeth Meredith of Chicago, who 
survives." H. L. H. 

GEORGE FIELDING FICKLEN. Died May 10, 1877. 
[See Record No. IV, page 51.] 

LIEUT. LEIGHTON FINLEY. Died February 12, 1894. 
[See Record No. VI, page 36.] 

CHARLES DUFIEF FOWLER, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Samuel Fowler, born in Maryland March i, 1813, 
banker, firm of Rittenhouse, Fowler and Company, mar- 
ried in Washington, D. C, July 25, 1842, died in Washing- 
ton February 15, 1896. 

Mother, Jane S. duFief, born in Washington Decem- 
ber 17, 1819, died in Washington September 26, 1904. 

Born in Washington, September 2, 1854. Prepared at 
Emerson Institute, Washington, D. C, and entered Prince- 
ton in September, 1873. Room, 6 North Reunion. Studied 
law at the Columbian (now George Washington) Law 

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School, receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1879, and of A.M. 
at Princeton the same year. 

Married in Washington October 7, 1907, to Ellie S. 
Welsh, daughter of Henry D. Welsh of Philadelphia, a 
director of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President of the 
American Steamship Company and officer in numerous other 
corporations. 

Early in 19 16 Charlie engaged accommodations at 
Princeton so that Mrs. Fowler and he might be there for 
the Reunion. On June 5th he wrote : 
"My dear 'General' : 

"With the greatest regret and most bitter disappointment 
I have to write you that I cannot attend our Class Reunion 
at Princeton. I have been more or less sick for some 
months and recently have had a severe attack of illness and 
my physicians are now uncertain as to when I will be able 
to leave here and they positively forbid me to attempt to go 
to Princeton. 

"I had made all my arrangements to attend the Reunion 
and expected to be there to meet my old classmates and I 
cannot tell you with what sadness I write this letter to tell 
you I cannot be present. 

"Remember me kindly to all my classmates and tell them 
I should have been at the Reunion to meet them if it had 
been possible. 

"Regretfully but sincerely yours, 

"Charles D. Fowler." 

Charlie is a member of the University and Chevy Chase 
Clubs of Washington. 

REV. ALBERT ANDREW FULTON, D.D. 

Father, John Samuel Fulton, born at Ashland, Ohio, in 
1820, lawyer, graduate of Athens College, Ohio, died at 
Ashland in 1865. 




Mother, Augusta L. Ful- 
ton, bom at Elbridge, N. 
Y., in 1826, died in Canton, 
China, in 19 14, aged 88. 

Born at Ashland, Ohio, 
June 4, 1849. Prepared at 
Appleton, Wis., and enter- 
ed Princeton in September, 
1872. Graduated at the 
Union Theological Semi- 
nary, New York, in 1880, 
and has been in China since 
then as a missionary under 
the Presbyterian Board of 
Foreign Missions. 

Married in Canton, 
China, July 26, 1883, to Florence Wishard, daughter of 
Rev. Samuel E. Wishard, D.D., a graduate of Hanover 
College, Ohio. They have six children and four grand- 
children. 

"Canton, April, 1916. 

"My dear General and Classmates : 

"Great is my disappointment that I cannot be with you 
on the fortieth anniversary of our graduation. I write 
from the largest city in Asia, and the hum of the street 
vendors, in a language vastly different from the one we 
used in Princeton, reminds me that I am far removed from 
the old faces and forms that I should so much love to see, 
despite the marks of age that no doubt we all carry, and 
that no one wants to obliterate. At no time has my love 
for the Class ceased, and it has been a great deprivation 
that I have had to be in China at times of Reunion. 

'T suppose I am one of the oldest members of the class, 
but I step about as rapidly as I did twenty years ago, and 

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my general health apparently is as good as ever, but I cer- 
tainly cannot do the heavy work that I did ten years ago. 
I am very glad to say that I have so organized my work 
that I am carrying a larger number of churches and chapels 
and preachers and helpers than at any previous time, and 
this largely by the assistance of some very able men who 
have been in training with me for many years. I have now 
seven self-supporting churches under my care, and thirteen 
partly so. We are planning to make the entire work self- 
supporting by another five years, and then I shall begin to 
think of the Reunion in 1921. 

''The thirty-five native preachers and workers under my 
care reach yearly more than 100,000 persons with the Gospel 
message in hundreds of villages and large centres, and we 
are planning for extensive work this year. Unfortunately 
the country has been harassed and disturbed and exposed 
to much suffering, owing to factional disputes, and today 
in this province a man is in office as Viceroy who was for- 
merly a robber, and his soldiers are ready to loot, and peo- 
ple have closed their shops in the inner city, and passage 
boats have not been running for many days. 

"Mighty potentialities are in this great Chinese race, and 
they only need wise statesmanship to become a world 
power. But I see no hope apart from Christianity, and we 
have a splendid plant in operation in all parts of the land, 
and there is not a shadow of doubt about the final triumph 
of our cause. The Chinese have a great love for America, 
and this is a big asset, which we must by all means retain. 

"Occasionally I have had the great pleasure of seeing 
'Brick' Lowrie, and he has been at our house for a short 
stay. He is one of the ablest men in the land, and is held 
in high esteem by many influential Chinese, and is a power 
for the upbuilding of this nation on a Christian foundation. 
Undoubtedly the heaviest burdens of life we have already 

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carried, and henceforth we must slacken the pace, but we 
should still see many years of fruitful work, and strengthen 
the things that remain. 

'For age is opportunity no less 
Than youth itself, though in another dress, 
And as the evening twilight fades away 
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.' 
"My love to every member of the beloved old Class, and 
in the hope of seeing you all in 1921, I am, 

"Yours to the cinders, 

"A. A. Fulton, 

'Dutch/ " 
That "Dutch" retains his old-time energy is evident from 
these lines contained in a letter dated February 20, 1917: 
"The time speeds and I have to look at myself to try to 
make out that I am sixty-seven years old, and think some 
of my classmates must be getting into the sixties. What 
of it? W^e are just getting to know ourselves. We must 
pull for the eighties and be ready for long years of work. 
I want to do the best w'ork of my life in the next five or 
ten years. The best remedy against any kind of dejection 
is steady work in a great calling. Surely there is big work 
for us in this world. 

"I have had twenty-five years in my present field and the 
people are subscribing to build a church in a large center 
to commemorate it. 

"I seem to step about as lively as I did twenty years ago, 
but I am quite careful about health rules and play volley- 
ball or tennis, or walk every day. We have to be a little 
more watchful of the machinery as we approach the Golden 
City. 

"Our youngest son will start for Occidental College, Los 
Angeles, in August, and will probably study medicine. Our 
youngest daughter is with us and in charge of kindergarten 

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work in this big city (Canton), where we have a tine train- 
ing school. Our son Ralph is with Grosset and Dunlap, 
publishers in New York City. He married a daughter of 

Mr. Dunlap and they have one child. 

* * * * 

"Nothing like absolutely unwavering faith in the great 
fundamentals to buoy us up and make us always to rejoice. 
There is a recuperative power in the everlasting Gospel 
that makes us always fit for our destined work. Rich we 
are and rich we for ever shall be, and therein we must ever 
rejoice." 

"Dutch'' raised $10,000 for building a plant to be known 
as the Kindergarten Training School, and the same amount 
for a Union Theological Seminary at Canton. Both these 
institutions are in operation and the latter has sixty stu- 
dents from eight different denominations and hopes soon to 
have two hundred students. His sister's Medical College 
for Women, the largest in China, has forty-eight students 
and has graduated about sixty, who are doing a great work 
in Canton Province. 

"Dutch" is the author of Idiomatic Sentences in Canton- 
ese Colloquial. 



ALEXANDER BAXTER GILLESPIE 

Father, Joseph R. Gillespie, born near Davidson College, 
N. C, in 1827, farmer and planter, A.B. from Davidson 
College, died at Statesville, N. C, in 1877. 

Mother, Elizabeth V. Springs, born near Davidson Col- 
lege, and died there in 1859. 

Born at Davidson College, October 18, 1851. Prepared 
at Charlotte, N. C, and entered Princeton in 1872. Roomed 
at 45 North College. After graduation he was in the In- 
ternal Revenue service in North Carolina for eight years, 

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since then he has been 
ranching in Wyoming. 

Married September 29, 
1880, at Wilkesboro, N. C, 
to EHzabeth C. Calloway, 
daughter of James Callo- 
way, M.D. They have had 
eight children, two of 
whom have died. Two are 
married, Kenneth to Jennie 
B. Banner, December 28, 
1914, and Calloway to Zina 
Alice Robinson, July 12, 
1917. There is one grand- 
child, Kenneth Banner Gil- 
lespie, born November 22, 
1915- 




SAMUEL BARTOW GREENE, LL.B. Died May 10, 
1904. [See Record No. VIII, page 38.] 

REV. PROF. WILLIAM BRENTON GREENE, JR., 
D.D. 

Father, William Brenton Greene, born in Providence, R. 
I., September 21, 1819, commission merchant, hrm name 
Hoyt, Sprague and Company, New York, married in Provi- 
dence June 18, 1846, died at Princeton, N. J., June 14, 1904. 

Mother, Eliza Harriet Arnold, born at "White Hall," 
Bryan County, Georgia, April 21, 1826, died November 20, 
1906. 

Born in Providence, R. I., August 16, 1854. Prepared 
at M. W. Lyon's Collegiate Institute, New York City, 
entered Princeton in September, 1873. At graduation 



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ranked in the first group, won first prize in the Extempore 
Debate in Whig Hall, second prize in the Lynde Debate, and 
was Valedictory Orator at Commencement. Member of 

Whig Hall and roomed at 
' Mrs. Ferguson's on Cham- 

bers Street. 

Taught in the Princeton 
Preparatory School from 
September, 1876 to June, 
1877. Studied at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary 
from 1877 to 1880. He was 
pastor of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Boston 
from June 5, 1880, to April, 
1883, and of the Tenth 
Presbyterian Church of 
Philadelphia from April, 
1883, to December, 1892. 
In May, 1883, he was elected a director of Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, and in 1885 a member of the Presbyterian 
Board of Publication. He was Stuart Professor of the Re- 
lations of Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion 
in Princeton Seminary from January i, 1893, to 1903, and 
since then has been Stuart Professor of Apologetics and 
Christian Ethics in the same institution. 

Married at East Greenwich, R. I., September 2, 1880, to 
Katharine Porter Greene, daughter of George Washington 
Greene, LL.D., author and non-resident Professor of 
American History at Cornell University. 

He was President of the Princeton Branch of the Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from 1895 to 
1903 ; Vice-President of the Presbyterian Board of Publi- 
cation and Sunday School Work from 1892 to 1913 ; Chair- 




12. 



man of the Editorial Committee of the above from 1887 to 
1913; Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Prince- 
ton, 1892 to 1916; Director of Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, 1883 to 1893. Member of the Rhode Island Society 
of the Cincinnati. 

Omitting newspaper articles and book reviews, "B." is 
the author of "Guatemala," in "Sketches of the Foreign 
Missions of the Presbyterian Church"; "The New The- 
ology" ; "New England Presbyterianism'' ; "Christian Sci- 
ence or Mind Cure," in the Presbyterian and Reformed 
Review, January, 1890; "Christ's Resurrection the Pledge 
and Illustration of Ours" ; "The Function of the Reason in 
Christianity" ; "Reality, Duality, Personality, Morality, Im- 
mortality, The Supernatural," a series of papers in the Pres- 
byterian and Reformed Review between January, 1898, and 
April, 1899 ; "The Elective System of Studies in our Col- 
leges in Relation to Preparation for the Theological Cur- 
riculum," Presbyterian and Reformed Review, January, 
1900 ; "The Function of the Miracle," in The Bible Student, 
March, 1900; "The Acceptable Offiering," ibid. January, 
1901 ; "The Ethics of the Book of Proverbs," ibid. Septem- 
ber, 1901 ; "Against the Revision of the Westminster Con- 
fession of Faith," in Homiletic Review, January, 1901 ; 
"The Practical Importance of Apologetics," in the Prince- 
ton Theological Review, April, 1903 ; "Broadchurchism," 
ibid. July, 1906; "The Relation of the Miracle to Nature," 
Bibliotheca Sacra, July, 1906; "Has the Modern Psychol- 
ogy of Religion Desupernaturalized Regeneration?" ibid.; 
"Christian Doctrine," 1905 ; "The Importance of Preaching 
the Ethics of Christianity," The Presbyterian Quarterly, 
October, 1900; "The Church and the Social Question," 
The Princeton Theological Review, July, 1912 ; "The Bible 
the Text Book of Sociology," ibid. January, 1914; "The 
Pastor and Apologetics," Union Seminary Magazine, Feb- 

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ruary and April, 1904; "The Supernatural." in Biblical and 
Theological Studies. 

He writes: "What helped me most in my college course? 
It would be hard to speak on this subject exactly. The 
whole course, the whole life, was of incalculable benefit. 
I can never be sufficiently thankful. My association with 
all of you was a blessing that time continually reveals. To 
some of you I owe a very special debt. I can not be too 
thankful for the atmosphere of Christian optimism that our 
old Faculty constantly dififused. Perhaps I might single out 
the world-view which I received from 'Jimmie' in his philo- 
sophical lectures. It was one that can stand the stress and 
strain of this life and one that I am confident will be as 
valid in the life to come as now." 

"B." had expected to attend the Reunion and the letter 
following explains his absence. 

Newport, June 8, 19 16. 
"JMy dear 'General' : 

"It is with the deepest regret that I am forced by circum- 
stances which I can not control to write you that it is now 
clear that I cannot join with you all in our fortieth Re- 
union. To say that I am bitterly disappointed, is to put it 
very mildly. Though possessing the 'mens sibi conscia 
recti,' I also am ashamed of appearances. I am far from 
indifferent to the claims of '76, but I admit that it looks as 
if I were. With love to you all and the warmest wishes for 
the success of the Reunion, 

I am faithfully yours, 

W. Brenton Greene, Jr." 

CORNELIUS CUYLER GREGORY, A.M. Died Decem- 
ber 4, 1901. [See Record No. VIII, page 39.] 



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REV. HIRAM PHILETUS HAMILTON. Died August 
20, 1905. [See Record No. VIII, page 40.] 

Mrs. Hamilton, after the death of her husband, took 
charge of the agency of the American Bible Society in 
Mexico, remaining at her post in the City of Mexico until 
American marines landed at Vera Cruz, when she was 
forced to flee. On June 5, 1915, she died suddenly of heart 
disease in the office of the American Bible Society in the 
Bible House, New York City. Her service in Mexico was 
remarkably efficient, and on behalf of the Society she had 
visited Porto Rico, going to many of the missions there. 

"Their oldest son, Edward, was married about a year 
ago to Katharine Gulick, daughter of Dr. Luther Gulick of 
New York and he is at Interlaken School, Rolling Prairie, 
Ind. The second son, Harold, is still in Mexico City and is 
doing well in business. The youngest child, Elizabeth, mar- 
ried about two years ago Louis D'A. Rossire, a grandson 
of the late Mayor Hall of New York City, and is living at 
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada." [From a letter from Mrs. 
Hamilton's sister.] 

REV. ROBERT WILSON HAMILTON, M.A. 

Father, Henry Stewart Hamilton, born in 1807 at Tren- 
tagh House, St. Johnston, County Donegal, Ireland, farmer, 
died at Trentagh in February, 1871. 

Mother, Jane Wilson, born at Drumearn, County Done- 
gal in 181 5, died at Londonderry in 1898. 

Born at Trentagh, July i, 1851. Prepared in New York 
City under private tuition, entered Princeton in September, 
1872. Was Secretary of the Philadelphian Society, a mem- 
ber of Clio Hall, roomed in 13 North, later in town. Ow- 
ing to ill health he had a special final examination in April 
in order that he might leave Princeton and return to Ire- 
land. He studied theology at Magee College, Londonderry, 

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and at Edinburgh Univer- 
sity and New College, 
Edinburgh. He held the 
Denham Scholarship at 
Magee College. Ordained 
at Burt, County Donegal, 
January 29, 1880, by the 
Presbytery of London- 
derry, installed at Lisburn 
in the Railway Street Pres- 
byterian Church by the 
Presbytery of Dromore 
October 8, 1885, and is 
still its pastor. 

"R." has twice been 
Moderator of the Presby- 
tery of Dromore, Moderator of the Synod of Belfast 1907- 
8, Chaplain of the Lisburn Workhouse, First Convener of 
the General Assembly's Missionary Conference Committee, 
Convener for a number of years of the General Assembly's 
Committee on the State of Religion and Evangelization, 
First. Honorary Secretary of the Lisburn Temperance 
Union from 1886 to the present time, sometime Secretary of 
the Bible and Colportage Society of Ireland which Dr. 
McCosh was a chief instrument in founding in 1859, Trus- 
tee of Rosevale Rescue Home, on the Zenana and many 
other committees of the Church, governor and secretary of 
the Lisburn Intermediate School, governor of the County 
Antrim Infirmary and on the committee of the Thompson 
Memorial Home for Incurables, manager of the Brownlee 
Memorial National School, etc. Was on the General As- 
sembly's College Committee for some years, is a member of 
the Clerical Prayer Union, and the author of "a very few 
and ephemeral productions." 



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Married in Dublin, June 22, 1882, to Martha Lilian Don- 
aldson, daughter of Ebenezer Donaldson, M.D., Glasgow 
University. 

"R."' writes that his older son, "Eben Stewart Burt was 
married January 18, 19 13, and has one son, Robert Stewart 
Burt Hamilton, born July 23, 1914. E. S. B. is a Bachelor 
of Medicine of Edinburgh University, graduating with 
special honors and medals in ear and throat diseases. He 
joined an Army Medical Corps as a student and was on 
the Special Reserve. He was called out immediately on 
the outbreak of war in August, 1914, was taken prisoner by 
the Germans at Mons September 23, 1914, and was released 
in an unaccountable way — no reasons being given, and none 
known to our War Office — after five months of very trying 
prison life. He is now (October 4, 1916) for about twelve 
months at the front. Captain in the R. A. M. C, has just 
been awarded the Military Cross. I have had ten nephews 
in the war, four of them already killed. 

"Robin Victor (the younger son) was married January 
26, 1916. He is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, 
being senior scholar at graduation and subsequently taking 
his LL.B. with honors. He is a solicitor, Fisher, Fisher, 
and Hamilton, at Newry. 

"I always feel doubly sorry that I cannot participate in 
any of the Class fellowships and have so little intercourse 
with any of the men." 

In July, 1917, he wrote: "It is a great joy and pride to 
us that your great nation has cast in her lot with ours. We 
hope much from this both as to bringing the final decision 
earlier and as to the settlement afterwards. All hope for 
a settlement that shall enlarge the bounds of freedom and 
make permanent the sway of righteousness and love among 
the nations." 



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HENRY LEWIS HARRISON, A.M. 

Father, Joseph Duryee 
Harrison, born July 3, 
1822, near Caldwell, N. J., 
commission merchant in 
Newark, N. J., firm name 
Harrison Brothers, mar- 
ried in Orange, N. Y., Jan- 
uary 12, 1848, died March 
4, 1895, in Newark, N. J. 

Mother, Mary Adeline 
Harrison, daughter of Abi- 
athar Harrison, farmer, 
born at Orange, N. J., May 
9, 1825, still living. 

Born at Orange, N. J., 
May 13, 1854. Prepared 
at the Newark, N. J., High School and the Trenton Model 
School, and entered Princeton in September, 1872. Ranked 
fifteenth at graduation, had a Commencement oration. 
Roomed in 20 North West ; director of Class baseball nine 
and, in senior year, director and treasurer of the University 
nine. Member of Clio Hall. After graduation was Prin- 
cipal of Essex Academy, Essex, Conn., for one year, since 
then has been associated with Arthur H. Cutler, Ph.D., in 
the Cutler School, New York City. Received degree of 
A.M. from Princeton in 1879. 

Married July 11, 1888, in Sacramento, Cal., to Frances H. 
Tyrrell, daughter of Gerrard George Tyrrell, M.D., a grad- 
uate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and of the 
King's and Queen's College of Physicians, Dublin, and a 
member of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. 

"For twenty- four years I have been a member of the 
Consistory of the Collegiate Reformed Church, the oldest 



church on Manhattan Island, serving first as Deacon and 
now as Elder. I have also served on many committees in 
the church. For many years, I was a member of the Cen- 
tury Club, and am now a member of the Barnard and 
Princeton Clubs, New York City. 

"In the summer of 1916, in Los Angeles, Cal., there was 
a small '76 Reunion at the University Club, participated in 
by Harry Brown, 'Dick' Johnson, B. O. Cowan and 'Gen- 
eral' Harrison, the Postmaster being host. The June Re- 
union was described at length and the latest news about 
classmates and Princeton was exchanged. In the following 
days 'Dick' and 'Mickey,' with the aid of their touring cars, 
showed Mrs. Harrison and me some of the attractions of 
the largest city in Southern California^ entertaining us most 
hospitably and delightfully. That summer in the Far West 
is the Secretary's excuse for a year's delay in issuing this 
Record." 

CHARLES HARTRIDGE. Died November 23, 1882. 
[See Record No. IV, page 62.] 

WILLIAM JAMES HENDERSON, A.M. 

Father, William Henderson, born in Philadelphia in 1823, 
married in 1853, theatrical manager, died at Stockbridge, 
Mass., October 27, 1889. 

Mother, Esther Lewis, born in London, England, in 1835, 
died at Long Branch, N. J., October 7, 1909. 

Born in Newark, N. J., December 4, 1855. Prepared at 
Freehold Institute, Freehold, N. J., and entered Princeton 
in the fall of 1873. Member of CHo Hall, roomed in i 
South Middle Reunion. In October, 1876, he became a 
reporter for The New York Tribune, in 1880 to 1881 he 
was editor of the Financial and Mining News, returned to 
The Tribune in 1881, became a reporter for The Nezv York 

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Times in January, 1883, 
Musical Editor of The 
Times in August, 1887, and 
since September, 1902, he 
has been Musical Editor of 
The Nezv York Sun. 

He was Instructor in the 
History of Music at the 
New York College of 
Music from 1887 to 1889, 
Instructor in Elocution at 
St. Paul's and St. Mary's 
Schools, Garden City, Long 
Island, in 1895 and 1896, 
Lecturer on the Develop- 
ment of Vocal Art in the 
Institute of Musical Art since 1901. 

In the First Battalion, New York Naval Militia he be- 
came an ensign in 1891, and was a Lieutenant from 1898 
to 1902. Elected a member of the National Institute of 
Social Sciences in 1912, and of the National Institute of 
Arts and Letters in 1914, being one of seven Princeton 
men thus honored by the latter. 

He has written a great number of short stories, essays, 
poems, etc., for all the leading magazines in this country 
and England. He is the author of The Story of Music 
(1889) ; Preludes and Studies (1891) ; Sea Yarns for Boys 
(1894) ; Afloat with the Flag (1895) ; Elements of Naviga- 
tion (1895); The Last Cruise of the Mohawk (1897); 
What is Good Music (1898); How Music Developed 
(1898); The Orchestra and Orchestral Music (1899); 
Richard Wagner, His Life and Dramas (1901) ; Modern 
Musical Drift (1904) ; Pipes and Timbrels (1905) ; The 
Art of the Singer (1906) ; Some Forerunners of Italian 



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Opera (1911); The Soul of a Tenor (1912). "Cyrano," 
an opera with music by Waher Damrosch, the libretto writ- 
ten by Henderson in 1904, adapted from Rostand's famous 
play, was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Feb- 
ruary 27, 191 3. 

He is Associate Editor of The Standard Dictionary. 
Member of the Century, Princeton and Fox Hills Golf 
Clubs of New York and of The Authors' Club of London, 
England. 

Married to Annie L. Carter, April 2, 1880, divorced; 
married May 9, 1904, in New York City, to Julia F. Wall, 
daughter of Frederick A. Wall, designer and contractor in 
decoration. His son, William H., was married in 1909 
and has a daughter Jane Esther Henderson, born March 
17, 1914; his daughter Florence Vaulx, was married Febru- 
ary 15, 1913, to Robert Petrie. 

"Hendy" writes : 'T don't know that I am competent to 
answer adequately the question suggested by a classmate. I 
am certain that my whole life and character have been in- 
fluenced by my college course and equally sure that I am 
better than I would have been if I had not gone to Prince- 
ton. In the department of opinion I believe I have little 
now that I acquired at Princeton or can trace to it, but my 
taste for literary and philosophical studies was determined 
while at college. I did not get any inclination toward the 
arts which have absorbed so much of my thought for some 
thirty-five years. There was neither art life nor art thought 
in Princeton when we were there. Perhaps there is now. 
We learned metaphysical and ethical principles, but we had 
about as much knowledge of aesthetics as a fireside cat has. 

"Learning how to learn was the chief thing I got from 
my course. The methods of independent investigation be- 
gun in a childlike way in Princeton developed into a tech- 
nic of research which enabled me to do my best work in the 

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history of vocal music, especially in the fourteenth, fifteenth 
and sixteenth centuries, which has been my specialty. 

"But I know that the very best thing I brought away 
from Princeton was the result of an intimate association 
for three years with men of real force and character. The 
influence of you fellows has never left me. I have such 
a wholesouled respect for the men of my Class and such a 
desire to be worthy of them that it is a daily tonic. But 
that is not the end. The real significance of their influence 
lies in the first awakening in me in sophomore year of a 
vague consciousness that I was surrounded by vital forces, 
the kind that in the larger sphere outside our walls were 
making the world go round. My first discovery of the 
meaning of genuine manhood was made at Princeton and it 
was a big discovery. I wish I could express this thing bet- 
ter ; but I have been the grateful debtor of the men of 
'Seventy-six ever since I first came to know them, and I am 
sure to be so till the end." 

The entrance of the United States into the war boomed 
"Hendy's" "Elements of Navigation," over 3,000 copies be- 
ing sold in the first six months after the Government de- 
cided to organize a coast patrol and naval reserve force. 
The publishers got out three new editions, and in August. 
1917, "Hendy" thoroughly revised it. The new edition will 
be out this fall. 

HON. BAYARD HENRY, LL.B. 

Father, T. Charlton Henry, born in Philadelphia in 1828. 

Mother, Mary E. Jackson, born in Newark, N. J., in 1830. 

Born January 15, 1857. Prepared at Rugby Academy 
and entered Princeton in 1872. Member of Cliosophic So- 
ciety. Roomed in 17 South East. After graduation stud- 
ied law and was duly admitted to the bar. He has practiced 
law in Philadelphia ever since. 

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Married Minnie Mc 
Coride in August, 1881, 
who died a few years later. 
Married Jane Irwin Robe- 
son. There are three chil- 
dren: Howard H., Prince- 
ton '04, married to Mae 
Drexel Fell, June 23, 1904. 
Caroline M., married to 
Isaac AV. Roberts, Prince- 
ton '03, October 12, 1909, 
and Snowden, Princeton 
'20. The grandchildren 
are Sarah Henry, born 
March 28, 1905, Algernon 
Roberts, born October 3, 

1910, Bayard Henry Roberts and Mary Elizabeth Roberts. 
In June, 191 7, Bayard resigned the presidency of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of Germantown, which 
he had held for more than thirty years, the longest term of 
service of any President of a Y. M. C. A. Following are 
some extracts from resolutions adopted by the Board of 
Managers. 

"Mr. Henry has been president of the Board of Man- 
agers for over thirty years, having been elected in 1887. 
He had been vice-president for two years previously. When 
he became president the association was housed in the parti- 
ally remodelled church building on the present site, ac- 
quired a few years before from the First Presbyterian 
Church. Soon afterwards Mr. Henry and the Board of 
Managers secured the funds and erected the present fine 
new structure, the cost of which even in those days of in- 
expensive construction was about $100,000. Since then, 
from time to time, Mr. Henry has been the means of secur- 



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ing for the association additional adjoining real estate until 
it owns to the north the entire block, consisting of a large 
piece of land for the open air work of the association, quar- 
ters for the boys' work and also a number of fnie stores 
which yield a considerable income. The new property and 
buildings have recently been extensively improved, and the 
splendid modern swimming pool and its building erected. 
This development of the association has required energy, 
perseverance, enthusiasm and sound business judgment, and 
has been accomplished principally through the efforts of the 
president and will ever remain a monument in this com- 
munity to his unselfish and Christian spirit. 

"Mr. Henry's interest in Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion work has extended to all Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation work, both in this and foreign lands. He served for 
nearly ten years on the Pennsylvania State Young Men's 
Christian Association committee and in 1890 was president 
of the State convention in Danville. He was one of the 
leaders in the Million Dollar Campaign in Philadelphia a 
few years ago and it was at his suggestion that our associa- 
tion relinquished a large part of its share of the fund in 
order that South Philadelphia might have a branch for 
colored men. 

"Although Mr. Henry has withdrawn from the presidency 
of our Board his interest in Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation w^ork has in no way abated. He is now vigorously 
engaged in raising the $100,000 allotted to Philadelphia for 
the splendid Young Men's Christian Association activities 
proposed for the training and field camps of the new United 
States Army. 

"The work and success of our own associatioji of which 
he has been so long the guiding spirit, has been measured 
not only by material growth, but under his direction has 
greatly increased in membership and in widely extended 



service for the young men and boys of our district. So 
long as this association endures the memory of its leader 
and benefactor for more than three decades will be held by 
this community in grateful and affectionate recollection." 

Another item of long service is forty years as Secretary 
of the Board of Trustees of the church of which he is a 
member, to which may be added twenty-one years as a 
Trustee of Princeton, and numerous terms as an officer of 
the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, for several recent years 
President. At the Ten Class Dinner of Princeton Men of 
the 'Seventies in New York in January, 1916, Bayard made 
a capital speech, and later he outlined some of his views 
regarding the future of Princeton as follows : 

'T have a very clear conception of Princeton's future and 
feel that as far as material development is concerned we 
have nearly reached the end of the first unit. We need to 
perfect our chemical laboratories, and Princeton should be 
made the greatest chemical centre of the world. It will be 
the greatest biological centre on account of the Rockefeller 
Institute. I should also like to see it made the greatest 
electrical centre so far as the highest type of graduate train- 
ing is concerned. I would not make electricity an under- 
graduate study, as at Cornell and other places, excepting 
such courses as are necessary to lead up to the graduate 
work. It has always been a regret to me that Edison did 
not locate at or near Princeton. 

"With the completion of the new Dining Halls and such 
chemical laboratories as are needed, and the completion of 
the new railroad station, and the uniting of the old and the 
new campus, our first line of development will be com- 
pleted, and then the only thing we should work for is the 
increase of endowment for increase of salaries, so that we 
can secure the very ablest men possible in all departments ; 
and the increase of endowment for the library so that we 

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can secure the best apparatus for intellectual proj^ress. Our 
library is away behind those of other universities. 

"While wo have all the i^rounds we need lor one hun- 
dred years or more, 1 trust the University will secure as 
much property in and around Princeton as possible, so that 
when other universities or colleges desire to locate in or 
near Princeton there will be plenty of room for them. We 
may not live to see it but it is inevitable that Princeton will 
be the great intellectual centre of the United States, and the 
only thing which may give all of us satisfaction is that the 
boys of jimmie's day have been the men who have done 
the work." 

Bayard is a Director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
pany, the Insurance Company of North America, Trades- 
men's National Bank. Real Estate Trust Company, Lehigh 
Coal and Navigation Company, Keystone Warehouse Com- 
pany. United Railroad and Canal Company of New Jersey, 
Alliance Insurance Company. Philadelphia and Trenton 
Railroad, Lehigh and New England Railroad, Lehigh Navi- 
gation Electric Company, and the United States Fidelity 
and Guaranty Company of Baltimore. 

He was a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1898 
to 1902, and of the Select Council of Philadelphia from 1908 
to 191 1. His clubs are the Rittenhouse, Princeton, Penn, 
Union League, Germantown, University of New York, 
Buffalo of Buffalo, N. Y., Metropolitan of Washington, 
Ivy and Nassau. 

HON. JAMES CALDWELL JENKINS, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, David A. Jenkins, born at Dallas. N. C, in 1822, 
married at Dallas, planter before the Civil War. Treasurer 
of North Carolina from 1868 to 1876. died at Gastonia, 
N. C, September 10, 1886. 

]\Iother, Lotlema Holland, born at Dallas, N. C, ]\Iay 20, 

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i82o, died at Gastonia, N. 
C, May 20, 1880. 

Born at Dallas, May 22, 
1853. Prepared at Wake 
Forest College, N. C, and 
entered Princeton in 1874. 
Roomed in 40 North Col- 
lege. Attended Law School 
at Columbian University, 
Washington, D. C, in 1879 
and 1880, graduated at Co- 
lumbia Law School, New 
York City, in 1881. He 
practiced law in Atlanta, 
Georgia, from 1881 to 1904, 
was Assistant United States 

Attorney for the Upper District of Georgia from March, 
1883, to June, 1884, and held the position of Judge of the 
Court of First Instance in the Phi4ippine Islands from April, 
1904, to April, 1916; resigned in February, 1916, and came 
to New York in June following. While on the Bench he 
presided in Manila, Lingayen, Albay, Bagnio, Iba and San 
Fernando. 

Married at Atlanta, Georgia, May 24, 1882, to Susie 
Margaret Scruggs, daughter of William Lindsay Scruggs, 
LL.D., lawyer, journalist and diplomat. Minister to the 
United States of Colombia from 1872 to 1876 and from 
1882 to 1886, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary to Venzuela from 1889 to 1892, United States Con- 
sul in China from 1877 to 1881. The Judge and Mrs. Jen- 
kins have eight children, of whom the oldest daughter and 
the oldest son are married, the former in May, 1909, to 
William Lowry Meador, the latter January 31, 191 7, to 
Betty Maxey Chiles of Washington, D. C. The youngest 
son has been called to join the National Army. 



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Judge and Mrs. Jenkins were the recipients of many ex- 
pressions of appreciation and esteem while in the PhiUp- 
pines, one of them on March 15, 1913, on the eve of their 
departure for a short vacation in the United States when a 
"despedida" was tendered them at Lingayen by the mem- 
bers of the bar and officers of the court of Pangasinan. In 
a series of resolutions that was presented the statement was 
made that '"not only does Judge Jenkins stand foremost 
among jurists of to-day, but in his relations with the va- 
rious members of the bar who have associated with him for 
years he has upheld a high professional standard, marked 
with a nobleness of purpose, which enables others to rise 
above petty matters and prejudices and thus see with a 
clearer vision the cause as well as the interests of the par- 
ties they represent.'' 

At a birthday reception accorded to the Judge, a lawyer 
and Assemblyman, speaking for those who had assembled, 
said in part : "This congratulation, which comes from the 
depths of our hearts and i^ manifested in a sweetly poetical 
place like this, on which the waves with their murmur come 
constantly crowned with spray against the incommensurable 
wall of sand, is confounded in friendly association with the 
happy breeze which touches the green and yellow leaves of 
this fruitless cocoanut grove, bordering this beautiful beach 
of Lingayen, as if they all come to join us in the expression 
of the enthusiasm which we feel in our breasts ; let it all 
be the most eloquent testimony of our afifections, our con- 
siderations, our respect and our admiration toward the 
Honorable Judge Jenkins ; and with much more intensity be- 
cause this is not the only occasion in which in a most 
positive and clear manner, here and elsewhere, in the 
past and to-day, and most assuredly in the future, these 
same sentiments have been shown toward the Honorable 
Judge." 



Cable Nezvs American, of Manila, May 9, 1916, con- 
tained an editorial entitled A Loss to the Bench, in which 
it was said : "Judge Jenkins came to the Philippines in 
1904 when reorganization of the insular affairs under 
American rule required the services of the best minds. 
Judge Jenkins brought to his work thorough scholarship and 
preparation and he had not been here long before his rec- 
ord attracted marked attention His record now 

stands thirty-four civil cases afifirmed and none reversed. 
Of the 105 criminal cases appealed seven have been re- 
versed and four reversed in part, leaving 94 affirmed, or a 
total of 128 affirmations out of 139 appealed." 

In July and August, 19 16, The Neiu York Tribune pub- 
lished four letters by Judge Jenkins, two entitled "Blun- 
ders in the Philippines," referring particularly to the harm 
that would have been done by the adoption by Congress of 
the Clarke amendment to the Jones bill, and to the reorgani- 
zation of the courts in the Philippine Islands in 1914; the 
third was on "Our Duty in the Philippines," and the fourth 
an answer to Secretary of War Baker's criticism of his 
letters. From the first letter we quote : "I have repeatedly 
told the Filipinos that in my opinion they would never have 
independence, because it would not be given them till they 
were capacitated for self-control, self-help and self-govern- 
ment ; till there was commercial and industrial independence ; 
and that when this came about they would be wise enough 
to see that it was not best for them, and that possibly they 
would then be admitted into the Union. Many of the best 
informed would be highly pleased to remain indefinitely a 
dependency or with ultimate statehood in view." 

MORRIS NAHUM JOHNSON, A.M., while at Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y., in the summer of 191 5, had an attack of 
the grip which confined him to his bed for five or six weeks 



before he could return to New York. After it he never 
fully regained his health, and as his strength did not re- 
turn he was soon compelled to give up business entirely. 
He attended the Reunion in 191 6 but it was evident he was 
far from being his old active, buoyant self, he could endure 
very little fatigue and spent most of his time at the Class 
headquarters. During the summer his physical and nervous 
health steadily declined, he was confined more and more 
closely to his room, he lost weight and strength, and finally 
met death by a fall from his window, on Saturday, Septem- 
ber 30, 19 16. Funeral services were held October 3, in 
the Chapel of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth 
Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, and were attended by sev- 
eral members of his family, a few of his classmates and a 
number of other friends. Interment was at his home town 
of Hackettstown, N. J. 

"Johnnie" was the son of William Little Johnson, a mer- 
chant of Hackettstown, N. J., and Catherine (Trimmer) 
Johnson, all natives of Hackettstown, and was born Janu- 
ary 5, 1852. Preparing at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., he entered Princeton in September, 1872, and roomed 
in Woodhull Hall for two years with "Gus" Dellicker, after 
that in 20 North West with "General" Harrison. His gen- 
ial, fun-loving nature, his fondness for sports, especially 
baseball, his many attractive social qualities soon won him 
many friends and he became one of the popular men of the 
Class. He threw himself with all his heart into whatever 
interested him or was the business of the hour. He played 
on his Class baseball nine and football team and on the 
University football team, and was a substitute on the Uni- 
versity nine and its scorer. With it all he did not neglect 
his studies and maintained a fair stand. He was a member 
of Clio Hall. 

After graduation "Johnnie" returned to Hackettstown 

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and began the study of law, giving some attention to his 
father's business at the same time. In 1883 he went to 
New York and entered upon a business career, New York 
thereafter being his home; for several years he was with 
a firm that made marble mantles, then with a real estate 
investment company, and latterly with the Farmers' Loan 
and Trust Company. Besides he was interested in mining 
properties and, with the inventor, in the Brown Wire Gun. 
In politics "Johnnie" was a Democrat, a delegate to the 
New Jersey Democratic State Convention in 1880, and with- 
in the last few years an enthusiastic supporter of Wood- 
row Wilson. He was a member of the University and 
Princeton Clubs, and in them he spent many of his leisure 
hours. He was an influential member of the Phillips 
Academy Alumni Association of New York. 

Probably "Johnnie's" greatest enthusiasm was for 
Princeton, it would be difficult to find a more devoted Nas- 
sovian. Reunions, games, alumni gatherings were almost 
sure to find him at Princeton, his interest in the games was 
intense, his acquaintance with Princeton men unusually ex- 
tensive. He will be greatly missed at Class and college 
gatherings. A sister, who is the wife of "Jimmie'' Woods, 
a brother, and several nephews and nieces survive him. 

H. L. H. 

MAJOR RICHARD W. JOHNSON, A.M., M.D., United 
States Army. 

Father, Richard W. Johnson, born in Livingston County, 
Ky., in 1827, graduated at West Point Military Academy in 
1849, officer in the United States Army, married at Fort 
Snelling, Minn., in 1850, died in 1897 ^t St. Paul, Minn. 

Mother, Rachel Elizabeth Steele, born in 1827 at Lan- 
caster, Pa., died at St. Paul, Minn., in 1891. 

Born January 15, 1855, at Fort Duncan, Texas. Pre- 

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pared at Knox College Pre- 
paratory School and Hamil- 
ton College, New York, and 
entered Princeton in the 
fall of 1874. Member of 
Clio Hall, roomed on 
Witherspoon Street. Stud- 
ied at the Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of 
New York from 1877 to 
1879, receiving the degree 
of M.D. in 1879, and of 
A.M. at Princeton the same 
year. He was on the Medi- 
cal Staff of Charity Hos- 
pital, New York, from 
1879 to 1881, entered the United States Army as First 
Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon in 1881, was made Cap- 
tain in 1886, Major and Surgeon in 1899, retired from 
active service in 1909. 

Married in San Fransisco, Cal., June i, 1893, to Helen 
Woodburn McGregor, daughter of Thomas McGregor, 
Brigadier General in the United States Army, and they have 
one child, Richard W. Johnson, Jr., born April 23, 1906, at 
Fort Crook, Nebraska. 

"Dick'' has seen service in many places and many climes : 
among them Fort Buford, Dakota ; Fort Adams, Newport, 
R. I. ; San Carlos, Arizona ; other posts in Arizona and New 
Mexico; in June, 1893, in Washington, D. C, where he 
spent two years ; Fort Logan, ten miles from Denver, Colo- 
rado ; then in Wyoming; to Cuba in June, 1898, as surgeon 
in charge of the First Division Hospital, Fifth Army Corps, 
participating in the engagements before Santiago ; back to 
the United States in September at Montauk Point ; at Hunts- 



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ville, Alabama; at Chicago as attending surgeon and exami- 
ner of recruits ; left for the Philippines in January, 1900, 
as Chief Surgeon of the Department of Mindanao and 
Jolo, then Chief Surgeon of the Island of Negros, after- 
wards in charge of Santa Mesa, a hospital of seven hun- 
dred beds, the largest of the four general hospitals in Ma- 
nila. Returning to America in March, 1902, "Dick" was 
detailed as Chief Sanitary Officer of the Department of 
California, with station at San Francisco, thence he was 
ordered to Fort Monroe, Va., as surgeon of that post, a 
year later was assigned to the World's Fair at St. Louis in 
charge of the United States Medical Department Exhibit, 
next to Fort Crook, Nebraska, as surgeon of the post and 
Chief Surgeon of the Department of the Missouri at Oma- 
ha. During the second intervention in Cuba "Dick" was 
stationed in that island for over two years, returning to 
"the States" in 1909. Life in the tropics so affected his 
health that he was retired from active duty in June, 1909, 
since which time he has resided in Los Angeles, where the 
climate suits him and, with care, he manages to keep pretty 
well and to be able to enjoy life. He is a member of the 
Sierra Madre Club of Los Angeles. 

ROBERT WILKINSON JOHNSON, A.M.,.M.D. 

Father, William Fell Johnson, born in 1798 in Baltimore 
County, Md., a land owner, a graduate of the College of 
the State of Maryland, married in 1844, died at Rockland, 
Baltimore County, Md., in 1862. 

Mother, Ann Miflin Barker, born in Philadelphia in 
1816. 

Born at Rockland, Md., September 8, 1854. Prepared 
at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and entered Prince- 
ton in 1873. His rank at graduation was seventeenth, he 
won the second prize in Senior Speaking in Whig Hall, was 

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Vice-President of the Boat 
Club, President of the 
Caledonian Club in '75 and 
'76, roomed in No. 5 North 
West. Studied medicine at 
the University of Maryland 
and University of Pennsyl- 
vania, received the degree 
of M.D. in 1879, and of 
M.A. at Princeton the same 
year. He devoted himself 
to the practice of surgery 
and spent a year abroad at 
the Vienna Hospital ; As- 
sistant Surgeon in U. S. 
Marine Hospital Service at 
Baltimore, 1883 to 1886. Chairman of the Surgical Section 
of the Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1884-5. 
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in the 
Baltimore Medical College. President of the Medical and 
Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1894-5. Surgeon to the 
St. Agnes, Maryland General Hospital, Church Home, and 
Maryland Steel Company, IMedical Director of the Balti- 
more Mutual Life Insurance and Annuity Company. Fel- 
low of the American Surgical Association and of the South- 
ern Surgical and Gynecological Association. President of 
the Baltimore Clinical Society and of the Baltimore City 
Medical Association. Is now Emeritus Professor of Surg- 
ery at the Baltimore Medical College. Member of the 
American Surgical Association, also of the American Medi- 
cal Association. Vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 
Brigade Surgeon of the Maryland National Guard and As- 
sistant Surgeon in the Hospital Service of the United 
States. 



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Married in Philadelphia, October i, 1879, to Julia Watts 
Hall Brock, daughter of John Penn Brock, M.A. They 
have had six children, of whom the youngest has died, and 
there are five grandchildren, two of them born since the 
191 1 Record was compiled. 

"Bob" is an Honorary Member of the Washington Medi- 
cal and Surgical Society, and a member of the University 
Club, Country Club, etc., also ex-governor of the University 
Club. He is the author of many professional papers. His 
son Robert W., Jr., Princeton '12, was elected to $. B. K. 

DAVID BENTON JONES, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, John P. Jones, born in Wales, married in Wales. 

Mother, Phoebe Davies, born in Wales. 

Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, September i, 1848. Pre- 
pared at the State Normal School, Platteville, Wis., and 
entered Princeton in the autumn of 1873. Roomed in 17 
North East College. Graduated first in the Class. Mem- 
ber of Clio Hall. Junior Orator, Lynde Prize Debater. 
Studied law and engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. 

Married June 11, 1879, to Nora L. Bayley. Five chil- 
dren were born to them. Mrs. Jones died March 17, 1899. 

"Dave" was one of the first five Alumni Trustees, and 
after the two years given him by ballot was reelected for 
five years. He was President of the Princeton Club of 
Chicago for several terms. Is a member of a number of 
clubs in Chicago and New York. No report. 

THOMAS DAVIES JONES, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, John P. Jones, born in Wales, married in Wales. 

Mother, Phoebe Davies, born in Wales. 

Born at Mifflin, Wis., August 13, 185 1. Prepared at the 
State Normal School, Platteville, Wis., and entered Prince- 

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ton in the fall of 1873. Roomed in 17 North East. Grad- 
uated first in the Class. Member of Clio Hall. Lynde 
Prize Debater. Prize winner in Sophomore Essay, Lit. 
Essay, in English Literature and in Mental Science. Stud- 
ied law and engaged in its practice in Chicago. 

"Tom" was elected a life Trustee of Princeton in 1909, 
and resigned a few years ago. He has been President of 
the University Club of Chicago and of the W'estern Asso- 
ciation of Princeton Clubs. Is a member of a number of 
clubs in Chicago and New York. 

On June 12, 1914, President Wilson appointed "Tom" 
a member of the Federal Reserve Board. The nomination 
was referred to the Senate Committee on Banking and 
Currency, which proceeded to investigate the relation of 
the nominees to business corporations. The fact that "Tom" 
was a director of the International Harvester Company 
and that he had been President of a zinc company that 
had sold its property to the New Jersey Zinc Company, re- 
ceiving stock of the New Jersey company in payment, 
seemed to arouse so much adverse feeling to him in the 
Committee that "Tom" on July 20 requested the President 
to withdraw his name, in order that the administration 
might be relieved of any embarrassment that an adverse 
vote on the nomination might create. 

In reply the President wrote in part : "Your letter brings 
to me, I think, more kinds of regret than any other letter I 
ever received: Regret, first of all, that the country should 
lose the invaluable services of such a man as I, and all fair- 
minded men who know you at all, know you to be ; regret 
that I should have brought upon you so unpleasant an ex- 
perience, in which you were treated with gross and mani- 
fest injustice." 

Telegram from Washington, Aug. 6, 19 17. 
President Wilson to-day appointed Thomas D. Jones of 

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Chicago to represent the Department of Commerce on the 
Administration Board of the Exports Control Council. 
No report. 

WILLIAM TALMAGE KAUFMAN 

Father, Rev. John Henry 
Kaufman, born at Lancas- 
ter, Pa., May 9, 1827, a 
Presbyterian clergyman, 
married at Princeton, N. J., 
May 23, 1855, died at Mat- 
awan, N. J., October 27, 

1873- 

Mother, Maria Louise 

Van Deventer, born at 

Princeton February 22, 

1830, died in New York, 

November 17, 1905. 

Born in Baltimore, Md., 
June 23, 1856. Prepared 
under a private tutor and 
entered Princeton in 1872. Member of Whig Hall. 
Roomed for a while in North, then in town. Member of 
the college glee club. Played on Class nine. 

Married at Plainfield, N. J., January 21, 1880, to Grace 
Lilian Brockway, daughter of Thomas Bailey Brockway. 

"Billy" was Assistant Manager of the Commercial Union 
Assurance Company until January, 1893, since then he has 
been with Harvey Fisk and Sons, bankers. He is Secretary, 
Treasurer and a director of the Electrical Securities Cor- 
poration, a director of Newark Factory Sites, Vice-Presi- 
dent and a governor of the Plainfield Country Club. In 
1882 and 1883 he was a Councilman at Plainfield. He is 
a member of the Princeton Club of New York, the Nassau 
Club of Princeton, and the Plainfield Country Club. 

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REV. GEORGE KNOX, D.D., was born of Scotch-Irish 

parentage at Newry, Pa., 
February 7, 1853, his fath- 
er having been born at 
Dromore, Ireland, in 181 1, 
and his mother, EUzabeth 
Wilson, at Hollidaysburg, 
Pa., in 1823. Preparing 
for college at Airy View 
Academy he took the full 
classical course at Prince- 
ton and the theological 
course at McCormick Sem- 
inary, Chicago, 111., from 
which he graduated in 
April, 1880, and entered 
upon the gospel ministry 
as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cherokee, Iowa, 
immediately on graduation. During his five years' pastorate 
in this church he organized six other Presbyterian churches 
in the vicinity of Cherokee as the result of his personal 
missionary efforts beyond his own parish. 

In 1885 he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Sioux City, Iowa, where he remained for four 
years and saw three churches organized through his labors. 
His health failing he resigned and took several months of 
complete rest, spending some time in Europe. On his re- 
turn he was called to Monticello, Indiana, where he served 
for six years. Here, too, he did much home mission work 
and was chairman of the Home Mission Committee of the 
Logansport Presbytery. In 1895 he was called to the pas- 
torate of the Seventh Church of Indianapolis and, after 
two years, to his last pastoral charge, at Vincennes, Ind., in 
which he served until 1901, and was Chairman of the Home 



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Mission Committee and Stated Clerk of Presbytery. Dur- 
ing this pastorate a new church building was completed and 
dedicated free of debt. 

At the urgent request of Synod he resigned from his work 
at Vincennes to accept the position of Synodical Superin- 
tendent of Home Missions and Evangelistic Work, which 
he held until his death. To this great task he gave the last 
eleven years of his abundant and abounding ministry, until 
called suddenly from his labor to his reward, December 19, 
1912. The last year of his life was devoted, in addition to 
his regular work, to the raising of $15,000 for a Presby- 
terian Neighborhood House in the rapidly growing town 
of Gary, Indiana. He not only raised the funds but was 
treasurer of the building committee. Heart trouble had de- 
veloped, but he would not rest until he received the last 
pledge of money for Gary, two days before his death. The 
last day of his life was spent in arranging his accounts and 
writing letters, when neuralgia of the heart attacked him 
and his work was done. As an expression of regard Synod 
placed a bronze tablet to his memory in the chapel of the 
Gary Neighborhood House. 

Knox received his degree of D.D. from Hanover College, 
of which he was an honored trustee for many years. 
Throughout his entire life he was highly honored by his 
brethren of all denominations and received the highest of- 
ficial recognition by his own, having served as Moderator 
of Synod, Commissioner to the General Assembly, and in 
many other similar offices in the gift of the Church. 

He was distinguished as an evangelist throughout his en- 
tire pastoral life as well as in the later years of his service 
of the Synod in that official capacity, and his own chief joy 
and highest success in the ministry was that of a "soul- 
winner." He was "a living witness" of the gospel he 
preached and men were irresistibly attracted to the Christ 

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they saw in him, as well as to him for his own and his 
Master's sake. 

It will be of interest to his devoted classmates to know 
that "John" Knox (as we were wont to call him in college 
days and since) was converted, "born again," after a genu- 
ine Pauline experience in the room of his life-long friend 
"Jai" Smith at the Airy View Academy at Port Royal, Pa., 
and that an entire day of fasting and agonizing prayer was 
spent in the travail of his spiritual birth. No greater trans- 
formation of character nor more entire and unconditional 
surrender and dedication of life and service to the Lord 
was made by the great apostle himself than that of our 
own beloved, and now sainted, classmate. His indefatig- 
able, exemplary and fruitful ministry was the normal and 
blessed outflow of that memorable spiritual experience. 
The one dominating and consuming passion of his minis- 
terial life was to have other men fully share his own pecu- 
liar enrichment and endowment of soul, and in the soul- 
transforming service he found the fullest and highest com- 
pensation in its abounding and abiding joy. 

During the thirty-two years of his ministry he knew 
neither rest nor respite from the passionate service of his 
fellowmen and of the Lord of his life. The last week of 
his life was filled with exhausting labors which fell from 
his tireless hands only as they relaxed in the sudden sum- 
mons to an unending rest. No higher tribute of apprecia- 
tion and affection can we render these departed classmates 
than in the realization of their highest hopes and yearnings 
for us, and in the answer of the fervent prayer which their 
triumphant life and death inspire in every devoted heart — 
"Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end 
be like his." J. A. L. S. 

"John" was married May 26, 1880, to Harriet L. Crozier 
who survives him with eight children, two having died be- 

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fore their father. Their youngest son hopes to study for 
the ministry, another is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church 
of Qintonville, Ohio, and another a Deacon in the church 
at Madison, Ind. The marriages of two children and the 
births of three grandchildren were chronicled in the 191 1 
Record. Since then the oldest son, Alexander, was mar- 
ried in September, 19 12, to Lois Humiston and they have 
one daughter, Josephine, born July 10, 1913; the oldest 
daughter, Elizabeth, has a daughter Elizabeth, born Febru- 
ary 13, 1916; and Florence, who was married to W. E. 
Shively May 26, 191 1, has three children, Flarriet Lydia, 
born June 23, 1913, William, February 26, 1915, and Mary 
Alice, January 2, 19 17. 

REV. ROBERT TODD LISTON, M.A. 

Father, Jonathan Allee 
Liston, born at St. George's 
Hundred, Del., January 28, 
1806, lawyer, practiced in 
the United States Supreme 
Court, twice a member of 
the Indiana legislature, one 
of a committee of three 
who revised the State Code 
of laws, married at Green- 
wood, Ind., May 19, 1836, 
died at Southport, Ind., 
October 15, 1881. 

Mother, Margaretta Lu- 
cretia Todd, born at Mt. 
Sterling, Ky., January 29, 
1818, died in Indianapolis, Ind., May 12, 1853. 

Born in Indianapohs, Ind., May 8, 1853. Prepared at the 
Preparatory School of Wabash College, Indiana, entered 

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Princeton in September, 1873. Member of Clio Hall. 
Roomed in town, rank at graduation about forty-first. Af- 
ter graduation he studied at the Union Theological Semi- 
nary in New York, receiving his B.D. in 1879. Princeton 
gave him the degree of M.A. in 1906. Since 1879 he has 
been a home missionary or a village pastor, on Long Island, 
in Arizona, in Alabama, in North Carolina, in South Caro- 
lina, and since May, 191 1, at Montevallo, Ala. 

Married June 28, 1882, to Clara Robinson of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., who died May 18, 1883. Married at Anniston, Ala., 
June 9, 1896, to Isabel Lapsley, daughter of James Woods 
Lapsley, lawyer. Judge of the City Court at Anniston. They 
have had six children, of whom one has died. The young- 
est, Jean Isabel, was born July 17, 191 1, so is not men- 
tioned in our last Record. 

Liston writes on October 24, 1916: "The manse here 
was burned on the fifth of March last, and with it went all 
our family records, so I have had to obtain exact dates 
for you from some of my kindred." 

"Montevallo, Ala., May 4, 1916. 
"Dear General : 

"Inclosed is my rather belated report; I wish it was more 
interesting, but it surely would not do for every one of the 
fellows to shine ; some of us have to be just plain humans, 
doing our little work the best we can, with the applause 
and flowers going to the other man. I was surprised to 
find from the reports that so many of the older alumni are 
taking less stock in the new Alumni subscription fund. I 
am afraid the new management is on the road to more alie- 
nation than any one cares to see or speak of ; the way evan- 
gelical services were rebuffed (Billy Sunday), and the way 
disbelief in evangelical views of the Bible are turned down 
at present, are things to be thought of seriously, I believe. 
I do so regret to join the groucher crowd, but it looks as 



if there was to be nothing else to do, if a fellow at all un- 
derstands 'where he is at.' 

"I do appreciate the brave efforts making by some of the 
thoughtful leaders to hold fast to the tried and true stand- 
ards, but it seems to me confusing to allow contradictory 
views of the foundation facts of 'the faith once for all de- 
livered to the saints' to be indorsed by a great university. 
Now, my dear General, if this sounds quite out of date to 
you, how easy it will be to skip it and just go on to the 
next paper you already know. I should like to see how the 
fellows look, after forty years ; so if my 'mug' reaches you 
a few days after this, and is too late and must be left out, 
it is all right. 

"I am grieved at the prospect of having to be content 
with the report of all that is to be done and said at the 
games and our Class Dinner. It looks now as if it would 
be impracticable for me to be with you, as I so greatly wish. 
But here or there, my heart is with you, and with the noble 
fellows of the best Class that ever. — With best wishes and 
cordial greetings to every one of '76, I am cordially and 
sincerely yours, 

"R. T. LiSTON." 

Liston adds that he is a member of "two local clubs" but 
passes over in silence the ecclesiastical appointments he has 
held and the honors he has received, which cannot have 
been insignificant in the case of one of his ability and de- 
votion to the service of his fellowmen. 

JAY HENRY LONG, A.M., LL.B., died August 28, 1913, 
at St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., after an operation 
for cancer of the stomach performed five days before. 
"While he had not been in good health for several months, 
it was not thought that he was seriously ill and the news 
of his death was a great shock to his friends and family. 

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"Judge Long was born at 
Honeybrook, Chester coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania, August 
12, 1853. He graduated 
from Princeton University 
in 1876, and studied law at 
Westchester, Pennsylvania. 
He came to Alinnesota in 
1882 and was managing 
editor of the Daily Journal 
at Fergus Falls for four 
years. 

"In 1887 he located at 
Slayton, Minnesota, and 
practiced law there until 
1898. From Slayton he re- 
moved to Mankato, where he practiced law and held the 
office of municipal judge. He came to Brainerd in 1906. 

"During his residence in Brainerd Judge Long has had an 
excellent practice. He has been active in politics and in 
public matters generally. He was a prominent member of 
the Socialist party, being secretary of the Brainerd local 
and secretary of the county central committee and was 
twice a candidate for county attorney on the Socialist ticket. 
"Mr. Long was of a genial, cheery disposition, and readily 
made friends. He was a lawyer of acknowledged ability, 
and a ready public speaker; an active and influential mem- 
ber of the Commercial club and one of the founders of the 
Boosters' club. 

"He is survived by four children, viz : Mrs. L. B. Lowe, 
wife of Dr. Lowe, of Glendon ; Miss Marion B. Long, of 
Minneapolis; Stacy S. Long, of International Falls, a con- 
ductor on the Canadian Northern railway ; Jay Long, of 
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"The remains were brought to Brainerd and were met at 
the station by a delegation of Masons. The funeral will 
take place on Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, from the 
Masonic lodge rooms, and will be under the auspices of the 
Masonic fraternity, of which the deceased was a member." 
[Brainerd, Minn., Tribune, August 29, 1913.] 

Long was the son of Stephen and Anna (Dampman) 
Long. His preparatory studies were pursued privately un- 
der the Rev. William A. Ferguson, and at the State Normal 
School in West Chester, Pa. Taking his freshman and 
sophomore years at Lafayette College he entered Princeton 
in junior year, and graduated in 1876. At the age of fif- 
teen he made a public profession of his faith in the Presby- 
terian Church of Honeybrook, Pa. In 1881 he reported for 
the Record : "Occupation since leaving college, teaching, 
farming, 'sticking' type, writing campaign editorials and 
studying theology. I was at Princeton Seminary during the 
winters of '77-8, '78-9 and '80-81. Between the middle and 
senior years I was farming at home one summer, editor of 
The Honeybrook Graphic six months, and for one year 
editor and part publisher of The Chester County Democrat/' 
From September 1881 to May 1882 he was Principal and 
Superintendent of Honeybrook Public Schools, from 1882 
to 1884 managing editor of The Daily and Weekly Journal, 
Fergus Falls, Minn., from January, 1885 to April, man- 
ager of the subscription department of The Northzvestern 
Presbyterian. 

Licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Red River, April 
I, 1885, and ordained by the same Presbytery, October 6, 
1885, he supplied churches in Minnesota until 1888, then 
studied law and was admitted to the bar. Soon after he 
wrote for the Class Record: "Practicing law at Slayton, 
Minn., making a good living at that and preaching to home 
mission stations for nothing. Now I get the credit of 

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preaching for nothing. When I had a regular appointment 
I didn't." 

In 1892 he demitted the ministry. His law practice and 
business interests growing, he removed to Mankato, Minn., 
and was a Ruling Elder in the church of that place. In 
1904 he was appointed a member of the Charter Commis- 
sion and in 1905 was elected Special Judge of the Municipal 
Court. In 1907 he moved to Brainerd, Minn., where he con- 
tinued the practice of law and looked after his own busi- 
ness interests and those of his clients. It was during these 
later years that he gave his support to candidates of the 
Socialist party and he wrote : "Unless the old parties change 
their system I see no hope for this country except through 
the Socialist movement." 

Long was married at Honeybrook, Pa., June 23, 1876, 
to Lizzie Buchanan Marple. To them were born four chil- 
dren, all of whom survive. Mrs. Long in 1917 was resid- 
ing in California. Three of the children are married, and 
there are six grandchildren. H. L. H. 

REV. LEONARD WALTER LOTT, A.M., rector of St. 
John's Episcopal Church, died very suddenly in his apart- 
ments at the Bangor House Thursday afternoon, May 10, 
19 1 7, after an illness of about three weeks. He had been 
rector of St. John's for ten years, coming here after pasto- 
rates in Jamaica Plain, Mass., New Orleans and other 
points. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. George Ball, 
living in White Plains, N. Y., and Mrs. John Potter, of 
London, Eng. ; also a sister-in-law living in Rhinebeck, N. 
Y., Miss Wager. 

Mr. Lott, who has been under a great strain in the trying 
period for his church following the great fire, which de- 
stroyed the church and all the surrounding property, had 
been in comparatively poor health for some time. For the 

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last three weeks he had 
been unable to leave his 
apartments and was under 
the care of a nurse, al- 
though not confined to his 
bed all of the time. His 
friends knew that he was 
ill and suffered from a bad 
heart trouble, but his death, 
coming with the greatest of 
suddenness, was a tremen- 
dous shock to all who knew 
him and is one that brings 
the deepest regret to a very 
wide circle beyond those 
numbered in his own par- 
ish, who had learned to admire him for his learning and 
devotion as a pastor through one of the most trying of 
periods that can come to a church and which is about to be 
surmounted, as his own life comes to an end. 

Since coming "to this city he has been closely identified 
with the religious activities of the city and the news that 
their beloved pastor has concluded his life here will bring 
the greatest grief to the people of his church and parish. 

His death will be a great loss to the Bangor Ministers' 
conference in which he has ever been active, and among 
his fellow pastors, without regard to denominational affilia- 
tions, he was a great favorite, being most highly regarded 
by them all. [From a Bangor, Me., paper.] 

Resolutions of the Vestry of St. John's Church. 

Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom has terminated the 
earthly life of Rev. Leonard Walter Lott, rector of St. 
John's Episcopal Church of this city; 

Be it resolved, that in the death of its rector this parish 
has suffered the loss of one who gave unsparingly of his 



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time, his strength, and his abiHty for the upbuilding of his 
parish, for the spiritual betterment of its people and for 
the moral improvement of the community ; 

That, in the death of this able preacher, a man of irre- 
proachable character and the highest ideals, the community 
loses one of its most inspired citizens, the State one of its 
most conscientious and valued residents and the Episcopal 
Church one of its most faithful servants ; 

That, bowing to the will of the Father, the members of 
St. John's parish, through its vestry, order spread upon the 
records of the church its grief at the passing of its beloved 
rector, yet take solace in the thought that the community is 
the better for his temporary presence; that the life of Mr. 
Lott has been an inspiration to mankind and an exempli- 
fication of true Christian manhood as characterized by con- 
stant devotion to the ideals of the Episcopal Church and 
the upbuilding of humanity. 

Resolutions of the Diocese of Maine. 

The Committee appointed by the Bishop of Maine to 
draw up resolutions on the death, which occurred May lO, 
1917, at Bangor, Maine, of the Rev. Leonard W'alter Lott, 
for ten years rector of St. John's Church, Bangor, Maine, 
adopted the following: 

RESOLVED: That the clergy of the Diocese of Maine 
place on record their sense of loss of a faithful priest, and 
their deep appreciation of his earnest and devoted labors 
which were so intimately connected with the building of the 
new and beautiful church at Bangor, now in process of 
construction, the completion of which he could not live to 
see : 

RESOLVED : That heartfelt sympathy be extended to the 
members of his family, and to St. John's Parish at Bangor. 
By the Committee, 

Philip Schuyler, 
Wm. E. Levingston. 
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Walter Lott came to Princeton in the fall of 1872 from 
the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. He was 
born in Rahway, N. J., August 12, 1853, the son of James 
Ray Lott and Harriet Augusta (Vanderbilt) Lott, both of 
whom were born in New York. Entering Whig Hall he 
soon became prominent because of his oratory, taking a 
prize in Freshman Declamation and Sophomore Originals. 
The next year he was one of the representatives of his 
Hall as Junior Orator. In addition he stood well in his 
studies. 

In May, 1879, Walter graduated from Union Theological 
Seminary, New York, and accepted a call to ehe pastorate 
of the Reformed (Dutch) Church of Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
Here he was married September 17, 1885, to Eliza Earless 
Wager, daughter of Ambrose Wager, A.B., A.M. In No- 
vember of the same year he resigned his position at Rhine- 
beck and applied for admission to the Episcopal Church. 
He was ordained deacon December 20, 1885, by Assistant 
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York and priest Febru- 
ary 4, 1887, by Bishop T. M. Clark of Rhode Island. He 
was rector of Christ Church, Lonsdale, R. I., until May, 
1892, when he was called to St. Peter's Church, Parley Vale, 
Jamaica Plain, Boston. Thence in February, 1903, he went 
to St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, La., one of the two 
largest Episcopal churches in that city. There he was a 
neighbor of Bev. Warner, who was rector of Trinity 
Church. 

The illness of Mrs. Lott necessitated their leaving New 
Orleans in 1905 and she died January 16, 1906, at Rhine- 
beck. Later in the year Lott went to Europe and remained 
there several months, spending much of the time in Italy. 
While he was there a call came to him from St. John's 
Church, Bangor, Me., and he became its rector in May, 
1907, and thus he had completed a decade in its service. 

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In 191 1, in the great fire that visited Bangor, Walter's 
church, with six others, his rectory and its contents, inchid- 
ing his library which he had been years in collecting, were 
burned. He immediately applied himself assiduously to its 
reconstruction and before his death had the satisfaction of 
seeing it within six months of completion, the money for its 
erection all subscribed and in the bank. The architect, H. 
B. Upjohn of New York, is a grandson of the architect 
who designed the structure that was burned and who also 
designed Trinity Church, New York. 

For about a year Lott had been declining in health and 
for the last four or five weeks of his life he was confined 
to his room. The last service at which he officiated at the 
church was on Easter Sunday, April 8. On May 10 he died 
quite suddenly, the cause being Bright's disease and heart 
trouble. The only near relatives surviving are two sisters, 
Mrs. E. W. Ball, of White Plains, N. Y., and Mrs. E. R. 
Potter, who resides in England. 

In 1 90 1, it will be remembered, Lott attended our Re- 
union, and in 1916 he was again present, though to con- 
duct service on Sunday in Bangor, Me., and attend a Class 
Dinner in Princeton on Monday required rapid traveling. 
He responded eloquently to the toast "The Absent Class- 
mates," and none of us imagined that before a year had 
passed he would have finished his work and entered into 
his rest. 

"Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought 
The bitter fight." H. L. H. 



REV. JAMES WALTER LOWRIE, A.M., D.D. 

Father, Rev. Reuben Post Lowrie, A.B. of the College of 
the City of New York, married in New York City in 1854, 
ordained minister and foreign missionary of the Presby- 

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terian Church in the United States of America, died in 
Shanghai, China, April 26, i860. 

Mother, AmeHa Palmer Tuttle, born January 8, 1833, in 
New York City, died September 15, 1907, in Paitaiho, 
North China. 

Born in Shanghai, China, 
September 16, 1856. Pre- 
pared at Lawrenceville 
School, Lawrenceville, N. 
J., Rev. S. M. Hamill, 
D.D., Principal, and en- 
tered Princeton in Sep- 
tember, 1872. Standing at 
graduation in the first half 
of the Class. Member of 
Whig Hall, roomed in 6 
North East and in town. 
He won first prize in Junior 
Orations, was an editor of 
the Lit., on the University 
and Class football teams. 
Class Orator on Class Day. From 1877 to 1880 he was 
Principal of the Madison Classical Listitute, Madison, N. J., 
studied at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1880 to 
1883, and in September, 1883, sailed for China as a mission- 
ary under the Presbyterian Board. In 1879 he received the 
degree of A.M. and in 1905 that of D.D., both from Prince- 
ton, In 191 1 he was made Chairman of the China Council 
of the Presbyterian Church, with offices in the city of Shang- 
hai. He arrived in New York May 9, 1914, on the "Imper- 
ator" and remained in the United States recuperating until 
August, 191 5, when he sailed from San Francisco on the 
"Mongolia" for China to resume his work. 




"Killing, China, August 7, 191 7. 
(Received September 11.) 
"Dear General : 

"I ought not to fail in my bit for the Record since I am 
eager to know what all the other 'Men of 'Seventy-Six' are 
doing, to say nothing of the obligation to see you, our faith- 
ful Editor, through, who have so patiently watched over us 
these forty years. 

"The seven missions in China of our Presbyterian Church 
(North), occupying thirty-two centres, as widely separated 
as Boston and New Orleans, manned by 451 American mis- 
sionaries with 2,000 Chinese co-workers, were united in 
1910 in a body called The China Council, composed of eight 
men representing the seven missions, together with a chair- 
man and vice-chairman. The Council is an advisory com- 
mittee with limited administrative authority, whose mem- 
bers are elected for two years and its chairman for three 
and are eligible for reelection. It meets once a year to con- 
sider the condition of the whole work and report to the 
Missions and the Board of Missions in America and to make 
carefully considered requests for men and means. 

"Of this Council I have been acting as Chairman since 
191 1. The Chairman is expected to visit the stations and 
learn the needs of each, to know personally the missionaries 
and give counsel when desired as he may be able, to attend 
the annual meetings of the missions if possible, and to 
carry on the missionary correspondence with the missions 
and the Board in America. It is a task big enough for a 
man of ten times my capacity, but I have been deemed of 
suitable age and being just 'one piece man' I can more 
easily move about than others. 

"It gives you some idea of the character of the chair- 
man's work to glance at a batch of work that was awaiting 
him at a city in Shantung Province March 27, 19 16. The 



bundle was not so large as it was varied and interesting. 
There was a letter asking him to visit a certain city and be 
intermediary in a serious outbreak between Catholics and 
Protestants, which has since been amicably adjusted; an- 
other speaking of a translation of the Confession of Faith 
into Chinese and conferring as to the best term to express 
in Chinese the words 'second causes'; another asking 
whether China Council will withdraw its opposition to 
building a residence in a certain city; can we find a physi- 
cian to fill a vacancy in the Philippine Islands for ten 
months ? — will J. W. L. indorse a strong plea for reinforce- 
ments in a large and important station? — is it feasible to 
unite the High Schools of a certain mission into one cen- 
tral school? This containing also announcement of first 
request for a teacher by the aborigines (not Chinese) of a 
distant district; a missionary wife's loving statement re- 
garding her husband who is being misunderstood ; a request 
by a Lutheran missionary for a copy of the doctrinal stand- 
ards of the Presbyterian Church ; a Chinese Christian gen- 
tleman's letter in Chinese in response to J. W. L.'s sympathy 
at the sudden death of his grandson ; cable and letter dis- 
suading from the reception of a certain missionary, apply- 
ing for entrance into our mission ; one telling of the wonder- 
ful faith of the mother of the Chinese boy Avho died so 
suddenly, and so on through twenty-five other letters from 
China and the home land. 

"One travels as other missionaries do, by donkey, pony, 
sedan chair, springless cart and railway, by house boat, 
slipper boat, steam launch, Chinese junk and steamer, — not 
yet by aeroplane though it would sometimes have been a 
great convenience and after the war will, I dare say, be as 
safe as the motor car and, in the interior of China, far 
more practicable. 

'Tn my journeys I drop in upon 'Dutch' Fulton at Can- 

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DeLacey Wardlaw 




Spencer Weart 



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ton, when we have a small '76 reunion. 'Dutch' has kept 
to this present the pace he set in college days, and it is in- 
teresting to note that of the thirty-six thousand Christians 
in connection with our China mission, twelve thousand are 
found in two widely separated stations. Canton and Weih- 
sien, where he and Rob Mateer of 77 have respectively been 
laboring for some tens of years. The remaining twenty- 
four thousand are distributed among the remaining thirty 
stations of the mission. Old '76, therefore, is doing her 
share towards bringing the life that is life to the millions 
of China. 

"I accompanied Albert, as I now call him, on one of his 
pastoral visits among his churches and saw one fine church 
edifice, by far the most commodious and impressive build- 
ing in the country round, erected at a cost of $5,500 gold 
entirely by Chinese, save $250 given by Fulton himself. 
And I discovered also that he keeps himself fit for the 
varied activities of his missionary days by playing away at 
tennis, of which he plays a good stifl: game forty years af- 
ter college days. 

"Statistics are dry reading, but it might interest the boys 
to know that we have in our China Mission 

830 organized and unorganized churches, 
36,000 communicants, of whom 
3,616 were received in 1916; 
786 schools of all grades from kindergarten to univer- 
sity, with 
18,000 pupils ; 

38 hospitals which cared in 1916 for 
11,000 in-patients and 
123,000 individual out-patients ; and, although treatment 
is free to the very poor, yet 
Mex. $120,000 was received by the hospitals from patients, 
and Mex. $323,000 was received from Chinese sources for 

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the whole work in 1916, Mex. $100 being equal to U. S. 
$70. at present. 

"The changes that have taken place in Old China during 
our residence here are greater than in a thousand years be- 
fore and make one eager to see the advance in the next 
forty years. This cannot be; but it is a great satisfaction 
to know that God's love for China has found a response in 
so many myriads of lives that no one can predict how swift 
and wide its conquests will be in the near future. It is a 
great privilege and joy to have had any share in making it 
known. 

"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

J. W. (Brick) Lowrie. 
"Dear General : 

"The above is not just the letter I would like to have sent 
you, but it is the best that I can do just now — I am away 
from work, taking a rest cure for some months, and hope 
to be all right in the autumn. 

"Yours most cordially, 

"Brick." 

In the summer of 1916 he dined with a group of Prince- 
ton men at Ruling, a mountain resort in central China, 
with a Yale man and a University of Virginia man as 
guests of honor. 

Following are some extracts from TJie Continent of 
March 25, 191 5. Dr. Lowrie is "a mandarin of the third 
or blue button. Since the Chinese word for mandarin is 
'kwan,' or 'public servant,' there is appropriateness in the 
title as applied to a missionary. This particular button car- 
ries with it the title of 'excellency,' the rank of governor, 
certain precedences at public functions, and appropriate 
official robes. The native Christians held rejoicings over 
the honors that had come to their beloved leader." At the 
time of the Boxer uprising every missionary at Paotingfu, 

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Lowrie's station, was massacred. "Having gone to Tien- 
tsin to see his mother off on a ship, Dr. Lowrie escaped the 
siege of Peking and of Paotingfu. He accompanied the 
alHed troops from Tientsin to Peking, and when a punitive 
expedition was decided upon for Paotingfu, Dr. Lowrie 
was naturally chosen as guide and interpreter. The decis- 
ion of the allied commanders had been that, as a lesson to 
the Chinese nation, the city of Paotingfu should be utterly 
razed to the ground. . . . Dr. Lowrie cherished no bitter- 
ness in his heart toward the poor, deluded people who had 
ravaged his home and slain his closest triends. . . . The 
military officials at length agreed to spare the city if the 
guilty officials were brought forth for execution. This 
promise Dr. Lowrie gave and carried out, and to the Chi- 
nese Dr. Lowrie is one of their heroes and benefactors." 



EDWARD DEWIS LYON, A.M., Ph.D. 

Father, William Lyon, 
born at Lyon's Farms, N. 
J., June II, 1822, married 
in Newark, N. J., December 
24, 1843, dentist, died Oc- 
tober 15, 1896, in Newark, 
N.J. 

Mother, Ann Moore, born 
in London, England, Janu- 
ary 6, 1827, died in Newark, 
N. J., September 29, 1901. 

Born in Newark, N. J., 
December 21, 1852. Pre- 
pared at the Newark High 
School and the Model 
School at Trenton, N. J., 
and entered Princeton in 1872 




Standing, sixteenth in one 



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year, twenty-second at graduation. Roomed in lo South 
Reunion, then in 54 North College. Member of Clio Hall 
where he received first prize in Senior Essays. In senior 
year he won first prize for Lit. Essay, his essay being chosen 
to represent Princeton in 1876 in the contest of the colleges 
in New York City. He was one of the editors of the Lit. 
In 1879 Princeton gave him the degree of A.M., and in 
1886 that of Ph.D. Studied at the Columbia Law School 
1 880- 1. For two years after graduation he taught in the 
Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, Conn., for the next two 
years in Newark Academy, Newark, N. J., thereafter he 
conducted The Lyon School in New York City. For the 
past three years, 1914-17, he has been Headmaster of the 
Allegheny Preparatory School, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Married in New York City June 2^, 1906, to Kate Emma 
Johnston-Pinckney, daughter of William Johnston. Mrs. 
Lyon died December 25, 191 3. 

Ed. is a member of the University and Princeton Clubs, 
New York City. He writes : "Despite the fact that 'all 
men are born equal but equality is the first thing they 
grow out of,' I am still a fateful optimist. 

"'Progress: man's distinctive mark alone. 

Not God's and not the beasts'. 

God is, they are ; 

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.' 
"The greatest men of the world are great because of 
character rather than intellect, as w^ere our Washington and 
Lincoln, and as Lloyd George is now the greatest man in 
England. He sees and tells the truth. So England trusts 
him and will win the war." 

RICHARD RIDGELY LYTLE, A.M., M.D. 

Father, William Franklin Lytle, born at Murfreesboro, 
Tenn., October 5. 1804, a Bachelor of Arts of Chapel Hill 

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College, now the University of North Carolina, planter, 
married at Shelbyville, Tenn., January 6, 1846, died March 
9, 1863, at Murfreesboro. 

Mother, Sophie Ridgely Dashiell, born September 10, 
1826, at Elkridge, Md., and still living. 

Born at Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 29, 1852. Pre- 
pared in private schools 
and at Union University, 
Murfreesboro, and entered 
Princeton in October, 1872. 
Rank at graduation thirty- ^"^ 

seventh, member of Whig 
Hall, roomed in 7 North 
East College. 

Studied medicine at the 
University of Virginia and 
received the degree of 
M.D. in 1877, of A.M. at 
Princeton in 1879. He en- 
gaged in the practice of 
medicine in Kansas City, 
Mo., for a short time, then 
in New York City, where he is also an examiner for the 
Prudential Insurance Company and diagnostician in the 
New York City Board of Health. 

Married in New York City October 12, 1881, to Mary 
Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Judge John Ford Arnold ; 
she died in New York July 28, 191 1. Five children were 
born to them and there are three grandchildren. 

Dick's daughter Julia was married June 8, 1904, to 
Charles Chambers and they have one child, Lytle Graef 
Chambers, born September 12, 1909. Sophie was married 
October 12, 1912, to Rev. Roscoe Conkling Hatch, Harvard 
'06, rector of Trinity Church, Tarrytown, N. Y. They 

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have two children, Roscoe ConkHng, Jr., born October 12, 
1913, and Mary Arnold Gray, born July 24, 1916. Richard 
Ridgely, Jr., Princeton '13, is a Rhodes Scholar and has 
studied at Oxford ; he has been connected with the Com- 
mission for the Relief of the Belgians, has been a member 
of the American Ambulance Corps in France, and has stud- 
ied at the General Theological Seminary, New York, in 
preparation for the ministry. He was married February 
23, 1917, to Elizabeth Fine Spahr, a niece of Dean Fine of 
Princeton, and he has taken an examination for a commis- 
sion in the United States Army and been assigned to the 
Cavalry. 

Dick's daughter Florence was married June 26, 1917, to 
Lieutenant Ernest Van Zandt, of New York. His son 
Scott is a member of the Seventh Regiment and was on the 
Mexican border for five months. Dick writes : "Both boys 
expect to go to France and I would go too if the powers 
that be would take me, but the age limit debars me. 

"It is hard to tell in precise terms what I owe to Prince- 
ton. Chiefly the foundation for my future career, and the 
dear associations of classmates, and the will to do for oth- 
ers my little bit, and happy memories when life's work is 
done." 

Dick is a member of the North Carolina Society of the 
Cincinnati through his grandfather, who was an officer in 
the Continental Army in the American Revolution. 

JOSEPH MC ELROY MANN 

Father, Rev. Joseph Rich Mann, D.D., born in New 
York City January 17, 1822, A.B. Columbia 1839, A.M. 
Columbia 1844, graduated from Princeton Seminary in. 
1848, received the degree of D.D. from Princeton, mar- 
ried in New York April 18, 1850, died in New York Oc- 
tober 13, 1891. 



Mother, Ellen Thomson, born in New York April i6, 
1827, died March i, 1899. 

Born in New York City, July 13, 1856. Prepared at the 
private school of John Schanck, at Princeton, and entered 
college in September, 1872. Roomed in 33 North College, 
member of Whig Hall. After graduation he was with The 
Nezv York World from 
August, 1876, to July, 1883, 
with the Presbyterian 
Board of Foreign Missions 
from September, 1883, to 
November, 1886, and since 
the latter date with Charles 
Scribner's Sons. 

Married in New York 
City April 18, 1883, to Fan- 
nie Benedict Carter, daugh- 
ter of Peter Carter, pub- 
lisher. They have two 
sons, Peter Carter, Prince- 
ton '05, and Joseph Fran- 
cis, Princeton '11, both 
lawyers practicing in New York. The former was mar- 
ried to Grace E. Stowell of Dover, Mass., April 29, 191 1. 
and they have one child, Doris Frances Mann, born June i, 
1915. The other son was married November 15, 1916, to 
Bertha Keller Allen of Glen Ridge, N. J., and they have a 
son, Robert Carter Mann, born September 7, 19 17. 

Mc. writes in August, 1917: 'T am still connected with 
the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, where I 
have been for nearly thirty-one years. As one five years is 
very much the same as any other, there is little to add to 
what has already been said. Both our sons are married and 
Mrs. Mann and I have returned to first principles, our din- 




ing-room table for the greater part of the week being re- 
duced to the original size without any extra leaves in it. 
Fortunately our sons are living near by and very frequently 
our board is enlarged and then the usually quiet house is 
changed to one of hilarity and joyousness. This is espe- 
cially so when the two year old granddaughter comes to see 
her grandparents. Then everything is different and a new 
queen reigns." 

Both sons when at Princeton secured the 4>. B. K. key, 
both are graduates with honor of the New York Law 
School, the older standing first in his class. Peter is with 
the law firm of Alexander and Green, 120 Broadway, Joseph 
with Hasten and Nichols, 49 Wall Street. 

Mc. adds : "One of the greatest disappointments of my 
life was the missing of our fortieth anniversary Reunion. 
I had been looking forward to it all the spring, and when 
the first of June, 1916, saw me sick in bed with a very 
serious attack of erysipelas my heart sank and I was a most 
disappointed man. I did hope it would all be over in a day 
or two, but no such good luck, and it was some fifteen days 
before I was able to resume my work. But while bemoan- 
ing my lot I was cheered tremendously by the greeting which 
came to me from Princeton, signed by twenty-eight or 
twenty-nine of those who had returned for the Reunion. 
I felt very grateful for the thoughtfulness of some one and 
would have been glad to have written to each one person- 
ally, but at the time was not equal to the task." Last 
spring "Mc." had another ill turn but soon recovered and 
now seems to be in good health. 

"Mc." is a member of the Quill Club, New York City. 

Mrs. Mann died suddenly September 18, 1917; a devoted 
wife and mother, of exceptional intellectual ability, deeply 
interested in church work, a very efficient officer in mis- 
sionary societies, she will be sorely missed. The heartfelt 



sympathy of the Class goes out to "Mc." in his great 
bereavement. 

FRANCIS HARTMAN MARKOE, M.D. Died September 
13, 1907. [See Record No. IX, page 89.] 
Francis H. Markoe, Jr., was married in the Cathedral of 
Christ Church at Oxford July 7, 1912, to Mariella York- 
Powell, daughter of the late Prof. Frederick York-Powell 
of Oxford, England. He was graduated at Yale in 1906 
and later studied at Oxford. Early in 1916 he was selected 
to take charge of the pageant in the Yale Bowl on October 
21, 1 91 6, to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary 
of the coming of Yale to New Haven. Of him The Nezv 
York Times said : "During his later career at Oxford he 
wrote the masque for the Oxford pageant. In 1910 he went 
to South Africa, wrote the masque and produced the fa- 
mous pageant given there. He wrote the masque played 
for 44,000 children in London as King George's coronation 
treat to children, and he assisted Frank Lascelles in the 
coronation pageant in London. In America, he has pro- 
duced a number of plays for social circles in New York and 
Philadelphia, especially for the Junior League show and 
for the Charity Ball." Since the beginning of the war in 
Europe Mr. Markoe has made two visits to Serbia, the first 
with Lady Paget, with whom he was associated in the work 
of the Lady Paget Hospital Corps. His last trip was as 
administrator for the British East Auxiliary Hospital, which 
was financed by Lady Strathcona. Since his return to this 
country he has associated himself with the work of the 
Serbian Agricultural Relief Committee, and in November, 
191 5, he was chairman of the committee that was to con- 
duct a charity ball for the raising of funds for the Serbian 
war sufferers. 



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FREDERICK ALEXANDER MARQUAND. Died De- 
cember 20, 1885. [See Record No. IV, page 76.] 

GEORGE BURNHAM MARTIN. Died April 29, 1896. 
[See Record No. VI, page 63.] 
The daughter was married July i, 19 16, to Maynard 
Taylor Strickland. Mrs. Martin and her son live on a farm 
twelve miles from Jamestown, N. Y., and go to that city 
daily, as Mrs. Martin is employed in the Jamestown Post 
Office and the son is an instructor in the manual training 
department of one of the public schools. 

REV. WILLIAM JAMES MC KITTRICK, D.D., LL.D. 

"My full name is Wil- 
liam James McKittrick. 
This was the name given to 
me before I left my cradle. 
Since then a 'Reverend' has 
Ijeen loaded down in front 
of it, and an A.B., a D.D., 
and an LL.D. have been 
scattered along its rear- 
guard ! ... As for the date 
of my birth, I have been 
told on reliable authority 
that I was ushered into the 
world-arena on May 13, 
1854, in company with the 
Crimean War. If you had 
a mule and a microscope, you might find the little village of 
Greenport, N. Y., where this event took place. My father's 
name was William McKittrick, born in the outskirts of 
Cookstown, which is the outskirts of something else in the 
green and stormy land of Ireland. My mother, Isabelle 




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Wasson, who became Isabelle McKittrick after the benedic- 
tion was pronounced, hailed from a small hamlet which was 
near another hamlet which was close up to the city of 
Londonderry, in the same leafy and umbrageous country. 
Both of them left Ireland as soon as they got enough money 
to weave their way down to a ship. 

"My preparatory school was Hudson Academy, whose 
old building is now performing the functions of a glue 
museum or a soap factory, I am not quite sure which. I 
entered Princeton in 1872, and left it in 1876. Entered it 
with a great quake in my legs, and left it with a great thanks- 
giving in my heart for the halcyon days behind us, the 
splendid companionships and the bright hopes that were 
shimmering around us when we were all standing and clapp- 
ing our hands on the rims of our battlefields." [From the 
Record of 1911.]. 

Dr. McKittrick's theological studies were begun and pur- 
sued at Union Seminary, but these studies were continued 
almost to the day of his death. He was thoroughly abreast 
of the times, informed as to the progress of theological 
science, and, as he wrote in 1906, "a. little worried sometimes 
over the narrow and hollow places in our traditional the- 
ology; a believer in a progressive revelation, sympathetic 
with all methods of honest Biblical criticism/' and sure 
that God's Word abideth forever. 

While in Union Seminary the young student became in- 
terested in the work of Hope Chapel on the lower east side 
of New York, and here he found his first pastorate, and 
here he wove for himself a fellowship of friends that have 
remained faithful unto death. No matter what honors came 
to our brother in other pastorates, the Hope Chapel friends 
claimed the glory and the fruitfulness of his earliest min- 
istry. It is interesting to note in this connection that there 
was one very bad. mischievous small boy in the Hope Chapel 

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Sunday School, and the vexed officers and teachers one day 
held a meeting and voted to exclude the boy from the school. 
But the blue-eyed young Irish pastor with a smile said, 
"We will give him another chance," and so Charles Stelzle 
was saved for his conspicuous ministry "for Christ and the 
Church." 

Dr. McKittrick was called from Hope Chapel to the pas- 
torate of the Presbyterian Church at Florida, Orange Co., 
N. Y., where he not only had a joyous ministry, but found 
a loving and devoted wife in Miss Julia Humphrey Seward, 
whom he married on the 3rd of October, 1889. Mrs. Mc- 
Kittrick and their son, Seward, survive the dear husband 
and father. 

Dr. McKittrick preached his first sermon as pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church at Batavia, N. Y., on March 8, 
1 89 1, and his pastorate of nearly four years was a notable 
one in the history of that church. In September, 1894, the 
Calvary Presbyterian Church in Buffalo claimed the bril- 
liant young preacher; and in January, 1899, the First Pres- 
byterian Church of St. Louis summoned Dr. McKittrick to 
be the ninth in the apostolic succession of pastors of this 
historic church. On August 28, 1914, after fifteen full and 
fruitful years. Dr. McKittrick relinquished his pastorate in 
a farewell letter which The St. Louis Republic recognized 
editorially as "a classic of its kind in local Presbyterian 
history." No better review of Dr. McKittrick's last pasto- 
rate can be given than that in his own words : 

"My dear friends," he wrote, "for over fifteen years I 
have been your pastor. During all that time you have been 
faithful and loyal to me. I cannot recall a single conflict 
between us, or any serious differences that would tend to 
drive us apart. You have been a great deal more than 
merely kind. You have been generous, gracious, magnani- 
mous, forbearing and helpful. I do not believe any minister 

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ever had groups of warmer friends in the pews. By deeds 
as well as by words you have linked yourselves into my 
heart and stretched a golden chain of affection through my 
memory. And so it is with profound sorrow that I have 
come to realize that the time has arrived for the severance 
of the relationship of pastor and people. . . . But I shall 
never forget you and your dear familiar faces, and the cor- 
dial grasp of your hand; your self-sacrificing devotion to 
me throughout my recent illness, and the heroic manner in 
which you have shouldered the increased tasks that were 
laid upon you. Congregation, elders, deacons, trustees, 
Bible School, Ladies' Aid and Missionary Society, Girls' 
Club, Janitor, — I send my utmost love to you in this hail 
and farewell." 

A wealth of testimony of our brother's life and worth 
was spoken upon his entrance into life eternal by the vari- 
ous congregations to which he had ministered. The work 
at Hope Chapel was discontinued a few years ago when the 
property was sold by the parent church; but a considerable 
group of Hope Chapel people held an impressive and com- 
forting memorial service for their friend in a neighboring 
German church. "He being absent, yet speaketh unto us." 

The Session of the Batavia, N. Y., church spread a mem- 
orial upon its minutes in which is said : "We realize the 
splendid ministry of his life and influence; we recognize the 
wise counsel, the faithful service, the exalted precept and 
example of a pastor whose influence still lives in our mem- 
bership in the many men and women in our church whom 
he led into the kingdom." Calvary Church in Buffalo, N. 
Y., held a memorial service and recalled with love our 
brother's labors in their field. The memorial prepared by 
the First Church (St. Louis) voices the feelings of the great 
congregation whom Dr. McKittrick loved and whom he 
served. "Many years have passed since he came to us, 

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strong in spirit, mind and body ; brave, courageous and 
fearless. He loved his Master, and, as if inspired, told us 
of His power, love and tenderness. In prayer he took us 
to Him, presented our needs, and asked Him to help us to 
bear our burdens ; in our weakness he strengthened us ; in 
our sickness he comforted us ; in our discouragements he 
encouraged us ; in our sorrows he sympathized with us ; in 
our rejoicings he participated with us; in our needs he min- 
istered to us. Yes, he gave his very life for us. He was 
stricken at his post and was compelled as our pastor to say, 
'Hail and Farewell.' "... 

It was remarked at the time of our brother's death that all 
the great daily papers of St. Louis gave space to a narration 
of his life in our community. The editorial tributes are 
worth preservation in the records of the Presbytery. "No 
physical infirmities of these later years could overcome his 
spirit of helpfulness or check his mental activities," says 
The Ghbe-Democrat ; "he freely gave of his counsels for 
the advancement of the religious and charitable causes to 
which he had been long devoted and continued to extend the 
little courtesies and perform the acts of tender thoughtful- 
ness for which he was beloved by all who came within the 
circle of his acquaintance. Dr. McKittrick never over- 
looked anybody. In his letter of resignation he included 
even the janitor in the list of individuals to whom he pub- 
licly expressed personal gratitude. The last product of his 
pen was a prayer written for the christening of a child 
adopted by two of his friends, which he was unable to ofifer 
in person. 

"Dr. McKittrick's renown as a pulpit orator was great. 
His style w'as extemporaneous and he found inspiration in 
his crowds. He was epigrammatic and witty. His hearers 
often regretted that his sermons could not be preserved in 
print. P)Ut it was not his intellectual brilliancv that so en- 

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deared him to his congregation. It was the quality of ten- 
derness in his character which found manifestation in his 
acts. He had no suavity of manner, being rugged and at 
times rather abrupt. But what others accompHshed by tact 
he got by his earnestness and his sincere love of folks. His 
personality was dominant, but his sweet spirit kept him 
from domineering. The greatest sermons he ever preached 
were to the poor, who instinctively loved him and trusted 
him. His faith was warm and simple and his presence was 
a benediction in times of affliction. He still lives in the 
affections of a multitude." 

And The Republic, editorially, speaks of him as "one of 
the notable preachers of his generation. His pulpit power 
grew out of his own attitude toward life and the springs of 
life. His sincerity made him impatient of explanations that 
do not explain and formulas too dead to hold living truth; 
his courage prepared him for the venture of faith that holds 
always to the supreme reality of the unseen. He believed 
that the strength of truth is in itself and that the weakness 
of error is surely self-limiting; he had, in consequence, a 
fine impatience with the timidities of those who would de- 
fend truth by imposing their own narrow definitions on other 
people ; he merely gave it full sway over his own thought 
and speech and trusted to its self-vindication. His power 
of utterance was unforgetable. Steeped in the best litera- 
ture, his own individuality and mother-wit were irrepressi- 
ble ; his gatherings enriched his utterance but never domi- 
nated it. He lived the life of a scholar and was recognized 
as a natural ally by all those who believe that thought and 
faith, and not things, rule the world. The community is 
poorer in things precious though intangible for his going 
forth." 

The records of the Presbytery for some fifteen years 
show the fine cooperation and the abundant activity of our 

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brother. He was interested in Sabbath-schools, in Chris- 
tian education and in home missions. As chairman of the 
Committee on College Aid, Dr. McKittrick raised large sums 
of money, not only for the colleges in Missouri, but for 
many of the struggling collegiate institutions in the newer 
West. He served faithfully as a trustee upon the govern- 
ing boards of Lindenwood and Westminster Colleges. But 
his especial interest was in home missions ; and many a 
weak and struggling church, and many a disheartened mis- 
sionary received sympathy, brotherly help and financial as- 
sistance. "I went to Dr. McKittrick for counsel and sym- 
pathy," said one self-sacrificing pastor, "and he sent me 
away with a feeling of hope, and thrust a piece of paper 
into my hand. When I got upon the street I ventured to 
open it, and there was a. check for the whole amount I had 
asked God but that morning to give me for emergency needs 
in my family. I am not ashamed to tell it now ; but that 
day I stood upon the street and cried for joy.'' 

There are some members of this Presbytery who will re- 
call the stated spring meeting when Dr. McKittrick was 
nominated for commissioner to the General Assembly at 
Los Angeles, when it seemed as if every member insisted 
upon the privilege of arising to second the nomination with 
a speech. And for twenty minutes these men spoke out 
their hearts. We are deeply thankful now for all that 
wealth of appreciation which our brother so modestly re- 
ceived ; and he tried hard to conceal his tears when the 
Presbytery by a rising vote honored him with a commission 
to represent his brethren at the Assembly on the western 
coast. Dr. McKittrick served his day and generation as 
Moderator of the Presbytery and Moderator of the Synod 
of Missouri ; and among his last public services was an ad- 
dress to the Synod of New York upon the occasion of its 
meeting in his former church at Batavia, N. Y. "Then," 

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it is said, "that great synod thrilled at his summons to a 
'masculine Christianity,' and went forward to its work with 
new resolutions of high endeavor." 

There were three accomplishments during his ministry in 
St. Louis with which Dr. McKittrick seemed especially 
pleased. They were the big hand of help he secured for the 
Tyler Place Church in the erection of their building ; a simi- 
lar generous gift for the Grace Presbyterian Church, and an 
annual subscription from the late Mrs. William McMillan 
for the socialized ministry of the Markham Memorial 
Church, which gave it opportunity for its subsequent won- 
derful growth. He had generous plans for Presbyterians in 
our city, of which he often spoke in the too-brief leisure 
years when he dwelt among us. He left a considerable 
volume of literary work as the result of his scholarship and 
ripe experience. It is hoped that these papers may be pub- 
lished and thus made accessible to the world. 

After Dr. McKittrick's death a parishioner loaned the 
following poem, written in Dr. McKittrick's handwriting. 
It seems to set forth the sweet, strong simplicity of our 
brother's faith, and therefore may not inappropriately con- 
clude this memorial : 

The Thought of God 
One thought I have, my ample creed, 

How deep it is, and broad, 
And equal to my ev'ry need — 

It is the thought of God. 

Each morn unfolds some fresh surprise, 

I feast at life's full board; 
And rising in my inner skies 

Shines forth the thought of God. 



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To this their sacred strength they owed 

The martyr's path who trod ; 
The fountain of their patience flowed 

From out their thought of God. 

Be still the light upon my way, 

My pilgrim staff and rod ; 
My rest by night, my strength by day, 

O blessed thought of God. 

[From a minute prepared for the Presbytery of St. Louis 
by Rev. George Wales King, pastor of the Markham Me- 
morial Presbyterian Church and formerly associate pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. McKittrick.] 

McKittrick met with a street-car accident, early in 191 4, 
in Cincinnati, which necessitated amputation of the left leg 
at the knee ; blood-poisoning followed and he was seriously 
ill in a hospital for weeks, his life being despaired of, before 
he was able to return to his home in St. Louis. His con- 
gregation desired him to remain as pastor and gave him 
leave of absence, but he resigned September i, 1914, in- 
tending to devote himself to literary work. He lectured at 
Lindenwood College, where for several years he had been 
at the head of the Bible Department, delved into early 
Irish times, and wrote a history of Ireland that has not 
yet been published. 

Even before his accident his health had not been perfect, 
and after it it declined steadily. Mrs. McKittrick writes : 
"The last six months of his life were filled with weariness 
and acute suffering for him and alternate hope and fear 
for us. We hoped that he might again make as marvelous 
a recovery from the disease as he did before, but it was not 
to be and almost before we realized how serious his condi- 
tion was, he slipped away from us, so quietly and peacefully 

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that our hearts were full of thankfulness that it had been 
made so easy for him." He died of diabetes December 13, 
19 16. A parishioner, Mrs. WiUiam McMillan, left a legacy 
of $250 a month to Dr. McKittrick as her pastor, in recog- 
nition of the counsel which she had often sought from him 
in the distribution of her wealth and by the terms of the 
will it is to be continued to Mrs. McKittrick. 

The only child, Seward McKittrick, graduated from 
Smith Academy, St. Louis, in 1909, from Princeton in 1913, 
from the Washington University Law School, St. Louis, in 
1916, was admitted to the bar of Missouri the same year, 
and was connected with the law firm of Charles and Ruther- 
ford until May, 191 7, when he resigned to enter the Ofticers' 
Reserve Training Camp at Fort Riley Kansas. Later he 
was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and assigned to 
duty at Camp Cody, Deming, N. M. Of him these lines 
were written in 1899: 

''MY BOY! 

What is filling his little head ? 

A bundle of all the stories he's read? 

Red and yellow and brown are the leaves, 

Dafifodils blooming and corn in the sheaves ; 

Marching across the sky is the sun ; 

Chipper and clipper he starts for a run. 

Kicking his two little heels in the air ; 

Gaze at his eyes and his bonnie red hair ; 

Touching the ground with his skimming feet, 

Turning around my smile to greet ; 

Beacon of blessedness — paean of joy, 

McKittrick's his name, and he is my boy." 
And a quotation from an article by 'T<it" in The Bibli- 
cal World will well illustrate the kind of gospel he believed 
in and preached : 

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"It is not reformation but formation, that we need; an 
active principle of life substituted for a dead principle of 
death, a new creation that shall plant within us the seed of 
a new world. And that shall never be done until we come 
beneath the scepter of the sovereignty of love. Then only 
shall we see the glory of God, when we see it shining in the 
face of Jesus Christ." H. L. H. 



SAMUEL DAVIS MELTON. Died December lo. i 
[See Record No. IV, page 80.] 



REV. PAGE MILBURN, A.M., Ped.D. 

Father, Benedict Milburn, born in St. Mary's County, 
Md., April 8, 181 1, printer, married in Washington, D.C., 

in 1843, died in Washing- 
ton in 1884. 

Mother, Martha Page, 
born September 8, 1817, in 
Washington, died in Wash- 
ington in 1888. 

Born April 19, 1856, in 
Washington. Prepared at 
Rittenhouse Academy and 
Columbian (now George 
Washington) University 
and entered Princeton in 
September, 1873. Member 
of the American Whig So- 
ciety, graduated with a 
rank of forty-fourth, 
roomed in town. Received the degree of A.M. at Prince- 
ton in 1879, of Ped.D. from Dickinson College in 1906. 
He has been a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church ever since graduation, except in 1907-8 when he 




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was President of Kee Mar College, Hagerstown, Md., and 
in 1909 to 1913, when he was Professor of Philosophy and 
Education in the West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buck- 
hannon, W. Va. 

Married in Washington, D. C, December 2, 1880, to 
Nannie Redin Woodward, daughter of William Ryland 
Woodward, A.B., A.M., D.C.L., lawyer. 

Page writes: "In 1913 I returned to Maryland and to 
the pastorate, in 1914 was pastor of Grace M. E. Church, 
Washington, D. C, in 191 5 was appointed to the pastorate 
of Woodside M. E. Church, a suburb of Washington, and 
reappointed in April, 191 6. My wife and six children are 
still living, thank God. All of my children have gradu- 
ated from college. In 19 13 William graduated from Ohio 
State University in Electrical Engineering, and was elected 
to the honorary E.E. fraternity; he is with the Cutler- 
Hammer Company of Milwaukee, Wis. The youngest. 
Page, Jr., graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 
1916. My son Joseph was married April 10, 1913, to Jean 
Ewing Pollock, and William was married November 10, 
1915, to Ethel Mae Dick. 

"What do I owe to Princeton? 

I. "My theological orthodoxy and philosophical obsti- 
nacy in the face of modern scientific doubt and religious 
quackery. Never once since my graduation have I had a 
doubt of the evidences of Christianity. McCosh, Atwater, 
Duffield, Murray, et. al., wonderfully impressed me with 
the certitude of their faith in the genuineness and authen- 
ticity of the Scriptures and the reality of a Christian ex- 
perience. Guyot and Alexander, scientific yet simple- 
hearted believers in the Christ and the supernatural, led me 
to the conviction that to be a scholar and a scientist one 
need not be an agnostic, an infidel or a fool. 

"I have read and studied and taught, and have no faith 

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in the modern rationalistic, materialistic science and philos- 
ophy. Old Nassau formed my opinions and gave me my 
view-point. I have suffered considerably on account of my 
Princeton-bred convictions, yet I am living to see the day 
of the return to first principles. 

"Then again, I learned in college the meaning of true 
democracy. I hear that Princeton is not now as democratic 
as in 1876. It was democratic. I was impressed strongly 
with the thought that a man's worth is to be measured by 
moral habits and principles, and personal ability to do 
things, not by dollars and cents. I have never forgotten 
that some of the best beloved and most influential men of 
our class were poor in this world's goods. I have never 
changed my mind about these things, but as the years have 
passed I have been more and more impressed with the truth 
that 'a. man's a man for a' that.' 

"Finally, I received a strong impetus to love literature. 
Possibly J. O. Murray, more than any other, impressed me. 
When I passed my last exam, in English Literature I did 
not put away my books. Murray gave me a peep into the 
beauties and ever widening expanse of literature. I have 
never been satisfied with my attainments but am thankful 
that at Old Nassau I learned to love books. I am still at 
it. I should like to live 500 years longer, so that I might 
have time to read the world's best literature. 

"To say that by the help of God I have been able to teach 
hundreds of others what I learned at Princeton is worthy 
of mention. I am what I am, and my children are what 
they are, and many others whose minds I have been able to 
touch are the men and women they are, because at Old 
Nassau I learned to love the best things. The philosophi- 
cal and ethical influence of the modern American College 
is anything but helpful. It is materialistic, rationalistic, 
unmoral, — and many times a year I pray for a return to 
truth and faith." 

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Page is the author of Emancipation of the Slaves in the 
District of Cohimbia (Columbia Historical Society, Wash- 
ington, D. C), and various scattered contributions to re- 
views and periodicals. 



JOHN GEORGE MILLER 

Father, Emanuel Miller. 

Mother, Catharine Miller. 

Born at Portsmouth, Ohio, February 4, 1853. Prepared 
under O'Brien and "Johnny'' Laird at Princeton in 1871 
and entered Princeton College in the fall of 1872. Member 
of Whig Hall, roomed in 8 South Reunion. After gradua- 
tion went into the clothing business at Portsmouth, Ohio, 
later moving to Chicago where he continued in the manu- 
facture and jobbing of clothing. In 191 5 he left Chicago 
and went to Dallas, Texas, where he is engaged in business. 

Married October 17, 1878, to Emma S. Drouillard, and 
to them were born a son and two daughters. The daugh- 
ters were married before 191 1 and the Record of that year 
reports that one of them has three children. The son, 
George Scudder Miller, was married in Boston, Mass., 
August 14, 1917, to Helene Elaine Lyon, and they will re- 
side in Chicago. 

Mrs. Miller died in 1888, and "Jack" was married March 
7, 1894, to Lena S. Harris of Texas. 

No report from "Jack" though frequently appealed to. 



THOMAS ALEXANDER NOBLE, LL.B. Died Febru- 
ary 10, 1907. [See Record No. IX, page 100.] 
There are now three grandchildren: William Noble Ros- 
ser, born October 5, 1909; Thomas Earl Rosser, July 30, 
191 1 ; and Harry Edwin Rosser, March 5, 1916. 

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HON. HIKOICHI ORITA, A.M. 

Father, Hikojayemon. 
Mother, Shigeko. 
Born January 4, 1849, in 
Kagoshima, Japan. Pre- 
pared at Millstone, N. J., 
under Dr. Corwin as a 
private teacher, and enter- 
ed Princeton in September, 
1872. Member of Whig 
Hall. Roomed in the Sem- 
inary. In the summer of 
1876 he was one of the 
judges at the Centennial 
Exposition in Philadelphia 
and at its conclusion pre- 
sented to Princeton the 
natural history collection Japan had sent as its exhibit at 
the Centennial. Soon after graduation he returned to 
Japan and engaged in educational work in Kyoto, becom- 
ing the Director of the Third-Higher-Middle School (Dai- 
san-Koto-Gakko) in 1880. From December, 1885, for a 
year and a half he was transferred to the chair of Chief of 
the Bureau of School Affairs in Mombusho, i.e., the Edu- 
cational Department, returning after it to the Daisan-Koto- 
Gakko, which in 1891 had 982 students. He continued as 
Director of this institution until 1910 when he resigned and 
was made Honorary Professor of the Daisan-Koto-Gakko 
(the third college). The Emperor then appointed him, 
December 27, 1910, a life member of the House of Peers 
in recognition of his services in the cause of education. In 
addition he is Vice-President of the Association for Pro- 
moting Morality, Vice-President of Ittoku-Kwai, Counsel- 
lor of Okayama Orphanage, Member of the Oriental Peace 



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Society, etc. He is also a member of the Imperial House- 
hold Department. That and the duties in the House of 
Peers require his presence in Tokyo three months of the 
year, during which, as a member of the Household Depart- 
ment, he visits the Emperor once a week, his position thus 
being one of great influence. 

Married August i, 1878, in Tokyo, to Satoko Ononye. 
To them were born eight children, several of whom are 
married, and there are nine grandchildren. 

Under date of May 5, 191 5, Orita writes, referring to 
the article about him in the Record of 191 1 : "You might 
surprise if you know I was misrepresented largely by Mr. 
Midsuno, the former consul in New York. Indeed a rank 
and honour were bestowed upon me on the retirement from 
my services, but not an income. An annual income of a 
member of Peers is very small, only $1000." 

June 16, 1916, he wrote: "I was surprised the fortieth 
anniversaly of our graduation should have been at hand. 
How rapidly the years passed away ! But it must be so, 
when we consider that our children grew up, even grand- 
children have been increasing almost every year. Please 
remember me to the old classmates with my best wishes. 
I am still looking for visiting Princeton in my life." 

In a letter written May 25, 1917, he says: "My first and 
second sons are in the army. I have got another grandboy 
since I wrote you last." 

[The editors have taken the liberty of quoting verbatim 
from Orita's letters, that it may be seen how remarkably 
he retains his knowledge of English when he has such 
small opportunity for using it.] 

FREDERICK PARKER, A.M., LL.B. Died August 17, 
1907. [See Record No. IX, page iii.] 
His son Robert has taught the West Freehold School for 

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the past three years and next year will be principal of the 
Farmingdale, N. J., school. Edward is in school in Free- 
hold. 

GEORGE DUBOIS PARMLY, A.M., M.D. Died Decem- 
ber 29, 1889. [See Record No. V, page 56.] 

ROBERT WILSON PATTERSON 

Father, Joseph Patter- 
son, born near Pittsburgh, 
Pa., in 1783, graduated at 
Jefferson College in 1804, 
lawyer and business man, 
died in March, 1868. 

Mother, Esther Holmes, 
born at Greensburgh, Pa., 
April 4, 1807, died in 1909 
in Philadelphia. 

Born in Pittsburgh, De- 
cember 28, 1850. Pre- 
pared at Hartville under 
the Rev. Mahlon Long '39 
and entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Member 
of Clio Hall, roomed in 19 South \\'est. 

Married in Pittsburgh, November 28, 1882, to Elizabeth 
Stewart Johnston. Of their four children three are living 
and the daughter, Sara, was married November 4, 1913, to 
Thomas Mercer Marshall III, a graduate of Yale. To 
them a son was born in September, 19 14. 

"Patt's" oldest son has been in the American ambulance 
corps on the French front since December, 1916, and the 
other son has enlisted in the navy. 

The Patterson Collection of Horaces now numbers about 




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8oo volumes^ in addition to which he has given many vol- 
umes of Virgil and other classical authors so that his bene- 
factions total more than iioo volumes. Of those that have 
been presented since 191 1 but a few can be particularly 
mentioned. Among the 64 volumes given in 19 12, especi- 
ally worthy of note are the Ravens worth translation of 
Horace's Odes, originally given by Lord Ravensworth to 
Lord Polworth, the poet Gray's copy of Algarotti's Vita 
di Orazio with marginal annotations by the poet, Chap- 
man's Homer, editio princeps, 161 1, Tennyson's own copy 
(1847) of The Princess with twelve pages of improvements 
and alterations in his handwriting, and two manuscripts of 
Horace, the Library now having seven that "Patt" has 
given. 

Other gifts are: a fine 1566 black-letter copy of the first 
English translation of Horace by Thomas Drant, a 1756 
Horace from the Foulis Press at Glasgow, a modern MS 
of the Art of Poetry exquisitely illuminated 1464; a quarto 
letter, four pages, of Jonathan Belcher, dated Burlington, 
N. J., 1748, the year of Princeton's first Commencement; 
a letter of Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, who was killed 
at the battle of Princeton, two pages, quarto, dated Amboy 
Nov. 6, 1776; a translation in MS of Horace's Ode 3, 
Book 2, by Robert Louis Stevenson, made when Stevenson 
was about eighteen years old, and, so far as is known, his 
only attempt at translating Horace. 

One of the finest books in the collection is the First Edi- 
tion of Virgil's Works with a Commentary, folio, published 
in 1475 t»y Jacques Le Rouge, on 282 leaves, splendidly 
decorated wdth a profusion of illuminated initials in gold 
and colors, and very handsomely bound by Kalthoeber. 

Other noteworthy books are Horaces that belonged to 
Louis XIV and Louis XV, Browning, Mrs. Browning, 
Thomas Gray, Wordsworth, Gladstone and Earl Cartaret. 

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Visitors to the Princeton University Library should not 
fail to ask that they may see the Patterson Collection. 

"Patt" wrote in July, 1917, that last fall and winter his 
health was not good ; he spent much of the winter under the 
care of a specialist in the South, and when writing was 
about to start for Canada. 



DAVID VANDERVEER PERRINE, A.M. 

Father, David Clark Per- 
rine, born at Clarksburg, 
N. J., October 30, 1816, 
married February 5, 185 1, 
near Freehold, merchant, 
died July 6, 1888, at Free- 
hold. 

Mother, Hannah Matilda 
Vanderveer, born near 
Freehold June 4, 1829, 
daughter of David I. Van- 
derveer and Mary Conover, 
died at Freehold Marcli 15, 
1900. 

Born at Freehold May 
^5> 1853- Prepared at the 
Freehold Institute and entered Princeton in September, 
1873. Room, 6 South Middle Reunion, member of Whig 
Hall, rank at graduation fifty-sixth. Received degree of 
A.M. in 1879. 

Married November 29, 1900, to Elizabeth Wyckofif Cono- 
ver, daughter of Elias R. Conover. 

"Davy" is still engaged in business at Freehold and is 
living in the old homestead where he has lived for sixty- 
four years. He says : "One of my clerks has been in my 
establishment since 1876, another since 1888, another since 




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1892. I have also assisting me a clerk who began working 
under my father's orders in 1869. The cook at our home 
has been with us over fifty- four years. At the age of sixty- 
two I took an examination for an ordinary life policy in the 
Equitable Life Assurance Society and the result was so 
creditable I was allowed to take a double portion, so you 
see my physical condition must be about right. ... I was 
very much elated the other day in reading the obituary 
notice of the late lamented Dr. Ormond '"JJ, that he was 
successful in that memorable cane-spree in his freshman 
year in 1873. As he was my opponent who on that occasion 
humiliated me and made me bite the dust, a matter con- 
sidered worthy of mention in his obituary notice forty-two 
years afterward, you can see how I was lifted up. In my 
defeat I have success." 

"Davy" is a Ruling Elder in the Old Tennent Church and 
has been a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Home Guard 
of Freehold, the oldest member, he thinks. 



REV. WILLIAM EDGAR PLUMLEY, A.M. Died May 
14, 1901 . [See Record No. VII, page 81.] 
Our "Class Boy" is still Assistant Treasurer of the Cherry 
River Paper Company at Scranton, Pa., and in addition is 
Treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of the same 
city. He writes that his mother is living in Scranton, his 
brother Stuart is New England District Sales Manager for 
the Davis-Bourneville Company of New York with head- 
quarters at Boston, Gardiner is at Charleston, W. Va., the 
two youngest sisters are teaching in the Institution for the 
Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, Lexington Avenue, 
New York. 



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HON. JOHN COOK LATTA PUGH, A.M., LL.B. 

Upon the writer's return 
from a month's vacation in 
upper Canada, in Septem- 
ber, 19 1 6, he was shocked 
to learn of the death of his 
classmate at his home in 
Arlington, a suburb of Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, on Sunday 
morning-, August 6, after a 
painful and lingering illness 
of several months' duration. 
Mr. Pugh was born on 
East Broad Street in the 
City of Columbus, August 
24, 1855, the son of Judge 
John M. Pugh, who was 
Probate Judge of Franklin County for over twenty years. 
The writer Avas an intimate friend of the family, which was 
a large and most interesting one, a happy family of boys 
and girls. The Judge and Mrs. Pugh were most charming 
and hospitable people. Through the influence of John, the 
writer was induced to join the Class of '76 at Princeton in 
January, 1874. 

The previous Class Records will give his family history 
and the fact that he was admitted to the bar in 1879, and 
continued through life the practice of law. He was an hon- 
est and respected member of the bar, of high standing in- 
tellectually and morally. We were associated together in 
several matters, and he was always well informed, diligent 
and able. At our last interview, which was very early in 
the spring of 1916, he looked well and happy, but at that 
time he was undoubtedly suffering from the disease which 
ultimately resulted in his death, but there was not a sign of 
this in our friendly visit. 



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He was quite active at one time in political affairs and 
was elected State Senator from the Tenth District in 1897, 
serving his State with great ability and integrity. 

While slight in build and of medium height, he took great 
interest in military training and was a captain in the Nation- 
al Guard, having served with distinction during the riots of 
'81 and '84. He was also greatly interested in the social 
and beneficial order I. O. O. F., and particularly in the mili- 
tant branch thereof, and by reason of his position as the 
head of that branch in Ohio, received the title of General. 
He became the head of the order in Ohio and at the time 
of his death was the representative of Ohio to the National 
encampment at San Francisco, which position he filled with 
great credit to his State and to himself. The official organ 
of the Odd Fellows contained a most complimentary obitu- 
ary, detailing his services to the order during a period of 
over twenty-five years. 

His funeral was held from his home at Arlington and 
was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Palmer, of the Broad Street 
Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, and by 
the Patriarch Militant of the Odd Fellows, attended by 
numerous national and State officers of the Order. It was 
with deep regret that the writer was unable to attend his 
funeral and pay that respect to his memory on behalf of 
the Class of '76 of which he was a most devoted member. 

We shall ever remember Mr. Pugh as an enthusiastic 
Princetonian, devoted to the Class of 'yd, of genial person- 
ality, of high personal integrity ; as his fraternal order said : 
"His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that 
all the world might stand up and say, 'Here was a man.' " 

O. B.B. 

Cook came to Princeton in September, 1872, from the 
Columbus, Ohio, High School and soon became well and 
favorably known because of his interest in athletics and in 

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the political questions of the day, while his frankness, sin- 
cerity and geniality won for him a warm place in the hearts 
of his classmates. He was a member of a baseball nine 
and of the Class football team. In Clio Hall he took a 
prominent part in its literary exercises and was a faithful 
and conscientious officer. In politics he was a Democrat 
and he espoused the principles and some of the newer ideas 
of the party with vigor and enthusiasm. These qualities 
were innate and marked his career in later life, accounting 
for the positions he attained in politics, in the National 
Guard and in fraternal organizations. 

That he kept up his interest in athletics after graduation 
was evidenced by an experience while on a trip through the 
Southwest in the winter of 1879-80. At Taos, N. M., the 
party spent several hours watching a group of Indians en- 
gaged in jumping, running and shooting; the Indians picked 
their best man for a foot race of about sixty yards and 
Pugh beat him by a couple of yards. 

In politics in Ohio Cook took a prominent part, several 
times being Chairman of his county delegation to the State 
Convention, also serving on the State Executive Committee, 
on the Committee on Resolutions, and as a delegate to the 
National Democratic Convention in 1900. After a term as 
State Senator he was again nominated for the office and was 
defeated by a small plurality although running ahead of his 
ticket. In addition he served as an officer and member of 
county and city committees and made campaign speeches, 
stumping Central Ohio for Democracy each year. 

He was married November 16, 1880, to Nettie S. Frisbie, 
of Columbus, Ohio, who died June 6, 1892. They had three 
children, two sons and a daughter, the older son dying at 
the age of ten. The second son, John C. L., Jr., is a grad- 
uate of Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, class of 1908. 

Cook was married to May F. Doyle, September 6, 1902, 

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who with the two children survives him. He died of cancer 
after "a long illness of intense pain from the beginning." 
Pugh's last letter to the Class Secretary follows : 

"Columbus, Ohio, June 8, 1916. 
"My dear General : 

I have been confined to my house for the past seven 
weeks suffering with neuritis. I am almost well now and 
hoped to be able to be with the members of the old Class on 
Saturday, but I now find that it would be impossible to do 
so. Please give all the boys of '76 my kindest regards and 
best wishes for the future and say to them all that no one of 
the absentees regrets his absence from the fortieth Reunion 
more than I. 

"Yours in the bonds of 76, 

"John C. L. Pugh." 



REV. HARRIS G. RICE, A.M. 

Father, William Rice, 
born at New Bloomfield, 
Pa., September 18, 1826, 
farmer and merchant, mar- 
ried December 25, 1852, at 
New Bloomfield, died in 
Philadelphia October 16, 
1904. 

Mother, Caroline Milli- 
gan, born near Sandy Hill, 
Pa., May 27, 1830, died 
May 26, 1892, at New 
Bloomfield. 

Born at Ickesburg, Pa., 
October i, 1853. Prepared 
at New Bloomfield Acad- 
emy, New Bloomfield, Pa., and entered Princeton in Sep- 




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tember, 1873. Grade at graduation 95.2; member of Whig 
Hall, roomed in No. 9 Nassau Hall. Received the degree 
of A.M. at Princeton in 1879. Graduated from the Union 
Theological Seminary, New York, in 1880, and was or- 
dained by the New York Presbytery in May, 1880. Pastor 
of Presbyterian churches: at Jefferson, Iowa, 1880 to 1887; 
at Seven Mile, Ohio, 1887 to 1890; at Delphi, Indiana, 
1890 to 1894; at Monticello, Ind., 1894 to 1907; at Albia, 
Iowa, 1907 to 1914; at Seven Mile, Ohio, 1914 to 1916. 
Now at Osborn, Ohio. He taught Latin as a supply teacher 
for a short time in the Albia High School. 

"Dan" has been Stated Clerk of the Fort Dodge Presby- 
tery, Permanent Clerk of the Iowa Synod, Stated Clerk of 
the Logansport Presbytery, and Permanent Clerk of the 
Synod of Indiana. Also Trustee of Fort Dodge Collegiate 
Institute. 

Married June i, 1882, in Indianapolis, Ind., to Rilla Hays, 
daughter of Isaac Cushman Hays, Special Insurance Agent 
for Indiana and Illinois. They have six children, of whom 
one is married. 

"Dan" attended the Reunion of 1916, the first it was pos- 
sible to attend since graduation and he writes : "I enjoyed 
every hour in old Princeton. It was the trip of my life. 
What a fine set of fellows we have ! I love every one of 
them. Such a meeting brings fresh hope to the heart and 
makes life look larger and richer in every way. 

"Here are a few items about our children, very interest- 
ing to us, but may not be of much interest to others : Her- 
bert, our oldest, A.B. Wooster '09, spent two years in India 
teaching, returned to the United States and took three 
years of theology at Auburn Seminary, then returned to 
India, where he has been teaching ever since in Forman 
Christian College, Lahore, India ; was married to Mary E. 
Compton, of Wooster. Ohio, October 21, 1913. Helen at- 

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tended Coe and Wooster Colleges and Teachers' College in 
Indianapolis, is just completing her fourth year of teaching 
in 'Old Dwight' Indian Mission School, near Marble City, 
Oklahoma. Paul, Wooster, classical, 19 16, now teaching in 
the High School, Columbiana, Ohio. William has finished 
his first year in the Medical Department of the University 
of Vermont, and Mabel is in Maryville, Tenn." 

HON. CHANDLER WHITE RIKER, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, William Riker, born at Bloomfield, N. J., June 
19, 1822, manufacturing jeweler, died December 27, 1897. 

Mother, Sarah M. Hunter, born in Newark, N. J., June, 
1825, died in Newark July, 1905. 

Born December 3, 1855, in Clinton Township, Essex 
County, N. J., now a part of Newark. Prepared at the 
Newark Academy and entered Princeton in September, 
1872. Rank at graduation eighth, roomed in 5 South Re- 
union Hall, member of Clio Hall. He studied law and 
was admitted to the New Jersey bar at the November term 
of 1879, since which time he has engaged in the practice of 
his profession in Newark. Princeton gave him the degree 
of A.M. in 1879. He has held the position of Corporation 
Counsel for the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Essex 
County, N. J. (1886), of City Counsel of the City of New- 
ark from May, 1894 to May, 1896, of County Prosecutor of 
Essex County, of Chairman of a Committee on Equal Tax- 
ation, appointed by Governor Murphy, whose report was to 
be presented to the legislature in 1904, and member of a 
Commission to Revise the General Election Laws of New 
Jersey. He has served several terms as Vice-President of 
the Princeton Alumni Association of Essex County, N. J. 

Married in Newark October 15, 1891, to Mallie Blair 
Snyder, daughter of William V. Snyder, C.E. of University 
of Michigan, merchant. They have four children, three 

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girls and a boy. The oldest daughter, a graduate of the 
Farniington, Conn., School, has spent nearly two years as 
an auxiliary nurse in the American Hospital in Paris, where 
she has been working in the facial ward of the section for 
the wounded. Many of the men are horribly maimed, 
sometimes most of the face shot away, but the surgeons try 
to replace the lost parts and make the men presentable. 
Miss Riker is so deeply interested in her work and the 
need of helpers is so great that she desires to remain until 
the end of the war. 

ALDEN KELLOGG RTLEY. A.M.. LL.B. 

Father, Azariah Bradley 
Kiley. l)orn at Barnerville, 
N. v.. June i6, 1815. mar- 
rietl February 15, 1S44, at 
Barnerville, engaged in the 
manufacture of woolens, 
died at Barnerville, June 
25, 1880. 

INIother. Lois Caroline 
Riley, born at Barnerville 
June 7, 1825, died March 
8, 1910. 

Born at Barnerville, N. 
Y., August 10, 1852. Pre- 
pared at Fort Edward In- 
stitute. Fort Edward, N. 
Y., and entered Princeton in 1872. Member of Clio Hall, 
roomed in 10 North College. Received the degree of A.M. 
in 1879. He studied law and practiced his profession in 
Harlan, Iowa, for several years, then went to (^maha where 
his business was real estate and loans. Later, in Des 
Moines, Iowa, he was manager of one of the departments 




of the National Life and Trust Company until 1902, since 
which date he has been engaged in the production of oil 
and gas in Louisiana, Texas, and latterly in Oklahoma with 
headquarters at Tulsa. 

Married August 27, 1878, to Beta M. Hard, daughter of 
Alonzo G. Hard, editor. They have three sons : Albert was 
married April 2, 1908 to Myrtle May Knapp, and they have 
a daughter, Edna May Riley, born January 19, 1910; Rob- 
ert was married in June 1910, to Leila Crosby, and they have 
a son, Donald Crosby Riley, born September 27, 191 1. 

"Chub" wrote May 30, 1916: "I cannot possibly come to 
Class Reunion. Sorry but sic volvere Parcas. Some later 
date I will be there, young as ever. 

"What am I doing? Drilling for oil and gas out among 
the 'primitive savages' Dr. Atwater used to lecture about 
and Dufiheld '76 illustrate with his pen pictures — known 
here as the 'five civilized tribes.' '' 

He sent a pamphlet, The Tulsa Spirit, the official organ 
of the Chamber of Commerce of Tulsa, whose illustrations 
and descriptive matter show what an enterprising and pro- 
gressive town Tulsa is. 

REV. EDWIN PATTEN ROBINSON, A.M. 

Father, William Justus Robinson, born in Philadelphia, 
December 14, 1814, married at Dauphin, Pa., March 22, 
1838, leather manufacturer and merchant, died April i, 1880, 
at Dauphin. 

Mother, Margaret Clark, born at Meadville, Pa., May 3, 
1814, died at Dauphin February 21, 1873. 

Born August 19, 1850, at Dauphin. Prepared at Harris- 
burg, Pa., Academy and Alleghany College, Meadville, Pa., 
entering Princeton in September, 1873. Studied theology at 
the Princeton Seminary, graduating in April, 1879. That 
same year he received the degree of A.M. at Princeton. He 

1.S1 




has had pastorates at Clar- 
ence, Orchard Park, East 
Avon, Sodus Centre, and 
Knowlesville, all in New 
York State. Since 1912 he 
has resided at Dauphin, Pa. 
He is not married. In 1896 
he made a trip around the 
world and visited several 
classmates en route. 

In May, 1916, he wrote : 
"You will observe from my 
report that my domestic af- 
fairs remain as ever, al- 
though I am glad that life 
has brought so much to 
most of my classmates, as husbands, fathers and grand- 
fathers. May goodness and mercy follow them and all 
theirs all the days of their lives, and then finally all of us 
be part of that great family that shall dwell in the house 
of the Lord forever. 

"With cheeriest greetings to all the fellows, 
"Yours most cordially, 

"E. P. Robinson." 
"Robbie" attended the 1916 Reunion and after it wrote: 
"I certainly had a fine time and thoroughly enjoyed every 
moment." He then alludes to the death of Sam Wilson and 
adds: "I am persuaded our Class has made a splendid 
record for noble and useful lives in the name of the Master, 
and I trust that those that yet remain will attain to the like 
ends." 

ROBERT JACOB ROSS. Died April 10, 1879. [See 
Record No. IV, page 93.] 

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WILDER F. RUDY, A.M., LL.B. 

Born in Ohio November 9, 1855. Entered Princeton in 
the fall of 1872. Member of Clio Hall, roomed in 19 South 
Middle Reunion. Received degree of A.M. from Princeton 
in 1879. Studied law at the University of Michigan, gradu- 
ating in 1878. Practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, for a time, 
then went to the Southwest for his health, later took up a 
claim in Nebraska, and finally located on a stock-ranch on 
the Cheyenne River in South Dakota. 

Married August 25, 1883, to Cecilia Baer. To them four 
children were born, two sons and two daughters. Of the 
sons one died in infancy, the other at the age of twenty, and 
Mrs. Rudy also has died. The daughters have married. 

No report has been received from Rudy nor has a letter 
to his brother, Dr. F. T. Rudy, of Champaign, III, been 
answered. 

HENRY MITCHELL RUSSELL, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Samuel Payne Russell, born August 20, 1815, at 
Lebanon, N. Y., married June 5, 1840, died April 16, 1881, 
in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mother, Clarissa Birdsey, born at Paris, Oneida Co., N. 
Y., February i, 1816, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 17, 
1900. 

Born August 26, 1853, at Hamilton, Madison County, 
N. Y. Prepared at the Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and entered Princeton in September, 1872. 
Member of Clio Hall, roomed in 8 South Reunion. Entered 
Columbia Law School in October, 1876, and was graduated 
in June, 1878. In 1879 he received the degree of A. M. 
from Princeton. Since admission to the bar he has prac- 
ticed law in New York City. 
"My dear General : 

"Your examination blank for the Record is at hand and 

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I am going to try to do 'all 
I can and the best I can 
for '76,' and I hope I will 
answer enough of the ques- 
tions so that I can pass. 
To be sure I have not any- 
thing of especial interest or 
import to chronicle, but, as 
we all like to hear from the 
other fellows in the Class 
as to their doings and hap- 
penings, so to enjoy that 
privilege each fellow must 
'do his bit' and tell some- 
what of what has occurred 
to and with him during the 
period since the last Record. In the first place, let me state 
that I have decided to allow the statement of my parentage, 
place and date of birth to remain unchanged. I cannot see 
any special reason why I should alter these records and in- 
deed I could not if I would. For like all the other fellows, 
in guileless innocence I have already placed in your hands 
these records and so I do not now alter them and cannot 
either, like Miss Oldwiggs in the play, 'chop seven years oti 
my age.' Still I am not sensitive about the latter, so let il 
go as it is. 

"I am still following the practice of the law without 
change or intermission, the only change there has been is the 
change in my office address. I still hold the same good old 
Republican principles that I have always held, supplemented 
by the newer ones of the party, and I am looking hopefully 
forward to that bright day when the G. O. P. shall be re- 
stored to power in the Nation and under its beneficent sway 
place the country in its proper high position. Since the last 

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Record! have neither been blessed nor burdened with fur- 
ther honors or degrees and so, as to those matters I am 'in 
pace.' I am looking forward with much pleasure to the 
coming of the new Record and shall greatly enjoy learning 
how all the boys are doing and where they are located. To 
pick up the Record and read of the doings of the Class 
gives a new lilt to this humdrum life of ours and gives us 
many a happy hour of delightful memories and recollections. 

"Yours as ever, 

" 'Slim.' " 

REV. HARRIS ROGERS SCHENCK, A.M. Died June 
21, 1898. [See Record No. VII, page 97.] 



HON. GEORGE DRAKE SCUDDER, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Edward Wallace 
Scudder, born in Trenton, 
N. J., August 12, 1822, 
lawyer, Justice of the Nev/ 
Jersey Supreme Court 
1869-93, A.B. Princeton 
'41, A.M. '44, LL.D., died 
February 3, 1893, in Tren- 
ton, N. J. 

Mother, Mary Louisa 
Drake, born at Morristown, 
N. J., in 1823, died in 
Trenton, N. J., January 20, 
1890. 

Born January 17, 1856, 
in Trenton. Prepared at 
the State Model School, Trenton, and entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Member of Whig Hall, roomed in No. 6 
South Reunion. Received the degree of A.M. at Princeton 




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in 1879. Studied law, was admitted to the bar as attorney- 
at-law in June, 1879, as counsellor-at-law in June, 1882, 
Master and Examiner in Chancery in New Jersey ; admit- 
ted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1894. He is a Trustee 
of the Children's Home of Scioto County, Ohio, of the 
Portsmouth Public Library and of the Scioto County Bar 
Association. Also he is an Elder in the Presbyterian 
Church, ordained in 1887; was a member of the Executive 
Commission of the General Assembly from 1910 to 191 3. 

He was a Councilman at Chambersburg, N. J., in 1885, 
member of the New Jersey House of Representatives 1886- 
7, and is a member (elected) of the Board of Education of 
Portsmouth, Ohio. Member of the National Geographic 
Society, of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution and of the Masonic Fraternity. 

Married in Portsmouth, Ohio, November 20, 1879, to 
Harriet Helen Damarin, daughter of Charles A. M. Dama- 
rin, wholesale grocer and manufacturer. They have one 
son, Charles Damarin Scudder, Princeton '07, who was 
married April 5, 1910, to Katherine D. Waite, and to them 
have been born two children, Charles Damarin, Jr., May 4, 
1912, and Sarah Katherine, February 20, 1916. 

George writes in May, 1916: 'T am still living in Ports- 
mouth and am doing a little in the law and real estate. 
Since my last report two grandchildren have arrived to 
add to my enjoyment of life. I have not been in very good 
health recently, but if it is at all possible I shall attend the 
Reunion in June." 

Much to George's regret and that of his classmates, he 
was not able to come to Princeton and thus his Reunion 
habit was for once broken. 

REV. LEBBEUS JAMES SHOEMAKER, A.M. 

Father, Daniel Shoemaker, born October 28, 1808, at 

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Cochran's A-Iills, Armstrong 
County, Pa., farmer, died 
in Armstrong County, June 
24. 1884. 

Motlier, Catlierine Ring- 
er, born at Delmont, West- 
moreland County, Pa., De- 
cember 28, 181 1, died in 
Armstrong County, Octo- 
ber 14, 1856. 

Born at Cochran's Mills, 
Pa., December 5, 1848. 
Prepared at Glade Run 
Academy, near Dayton, Pa., 
and entered Princeton in 
the fall of 1873 as a sopho- 
more. He roomed in 12 North College and was a member 
of Whig Hall. In 1879 he received the degree of A.M. at 
Princeton. After graduation he taught school. From 1882 
to 1885 he studied theology at the Baptist Union Theologi- 
cal Seminary at Morgan Park, 111. He has had pastorates 
at Clarion, Pa., Big Rock, 111., Shenandoah, Iowa, again at 
Clarion, Pa., at Muncy, Pa., at Marietta, Ohio, at Harlans- 
burg. Pa., and now at Elwood City, Pa. In 1896, while 
pastor at Clarion, he was also assistant instructor in Mathe- 
matics in the Clarion State Normal School. From 1894 
to 1896 he was Moderator of the Clarion Baptist Associa- 
tion, is now serving in his sixteenth year as Clerk of the 
Beaver Baptist Association, and has printed minutes equal 
to a volume of about seven hundred pages. 

Married in Venango County, Pa., January i, 1878, to 
Emma J. Coulter, daughter of James Walker Coulter, 
farmer. They have had six children, three of whom have 
died. 



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Regarding his children Shoemaker writes : "Lorraine 
was married to Dorothy Turner in October, 1907, in Mari- 
etta, Ohio ; he is president of the Oak Dale Baking Company 
in Philadelphia. They have three children, Frederick Leb- 
beus, born December 27, 1908, Dorothy Eloise, July 8, 1910, 
and Elsie Jeanne, April 8, 191 3. Albert, unmarried, is the 
Assistant Editor of The Sunday School World, Philadel- 
phia, Florence is at home and is a student at Geneva Col- 
lege, Beaver Falls, Pa. 

"It does seem too bad that I do not get to any of the 
Class gatherings. But I am so far away and my bank ac- 
count doesn't seem to justify the necessary expense. It 
may be no disgrace not to have a big bank account but it is 
often very inconvenient. I did not want to say this but it 
will help to explain what may have seemed to be inditTer- 
ence on my part to the varied requests from "76. The last 
five years have, no doubt, made a great change in the Class 
and the next five will make a greater. 

"I am i^astor of the Providence Baptist Church near Ell- 
wood City, where I have been for nearly five years. My 
working years cannot be very many. But I am glad still 
to be able to work." 

FRANKLIN BUCHANAN SMITH, A.M., M.D., died 

November 5, 1912, after a long illness, from typhoid fever. 
On his mother's side he was descended from the Nixdorff 
family, of ancient German origin, the first of that name 
coming with Moravians to Pennsylvania in 1770. Frank- 
lin's maternal grandfather was a pioneer merchant and ex- 
tensive land owner of Frederick County, Maryland, in 
which county Franklin's father, George Smith, was born 
January 31, 1807. His mother, Mary Nixdorff. was born 
at Frederick December 3, 1814, and Franklin began life in 
the same city April 10, 1856. 

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From the Frederick 
Academy Franklin entered 
Princeton in 1873, and on 
graduation matriculated in 
the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, from which he re- 
ceived the degree of M.D. 
in 1878, having taken a 
prize for anatomy, one of 
only three prizes oiTered 
that year. After six 
months as substitute resi- 
dent physician in a hospital 
in Philadelphia he returned 
to Frederick, Md., and en- 
tered on the practice of his profession, in which he con- 
tinued until his death. In 1879 the degree of A.M. was 
conferred on him by Princeton. Careful, conscientious, 
thoroughly competent, abreast of every advancement, skill- 
ful and successful in treatment, none was more prominent 
in Frederick County, no one higher in his profession in 
Maryland. 

From 1886 to 1895 he was health officer in his city, in- 
strumental in bringing about the adoption of many meas- 
ures beneficial to public health and a number of sanitary 
improvements. Indeed he was the first health officer for 
the city and county and, with the assistance of Judge James 
McSherry and Prof. Charles W. Ely, acting as a Board of 
Health, was instrumental in abating a terrible epidemic of 
diphtheria which had without intermission scourged Fred- 
erick from 1880 to 1885. Through his efiforts a majority of 
the present city and county health regulations were com- 
piled and enacted, the collection of garbage was started and 
a general cleaning up was instituted. 



At his death Dr. Smith was Vice-President of the Mary- 
land State Board of Medical Examiners, having been a 
member of the Board since its organization in 1892. For 
ten years he was a member of the United States Pension 
Board for Frederick County, for a number of years an in- 
fluential member of the American Medical Association, of 
the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (Vice- 
President in 1903-4), of the Frederick County Medical So- 
ciety (President 1900-3), and of the Association of Sur- 
geons of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (President in 
1909). From 1880 to 1883 he was local surgeon for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, and since 1890 had held a similar 
position with the Baltimore and Ohio. From 1890 to 1898 
he was attendant physician and surgeon to Montevue Hos- 
pital. In these various positions he received the invariable 
commendation of all with whom he came in contact and 
fulfilled every obligation with promptitude and marked 
ability. 

Dr. Smith was a prominent and useful citizen, one of the 
leading and most representative men of Frederick County, 
public spirited and active in all its affairs. He always 
found time to display enterprise in promotion of anything 
of general welfare and calculated to advance the interests 
of the community at large. He was actively identified with 
the business and financial life of the city and county, for 
several years Vice-President of the Farmers and Mechanics 
Bank, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Fred- 
erick County Telegraph and Telephone Company, Vice- 
President of the Frederick Railroad Company, President of 
the Brunswick Railroad Company, and President of the 
Washington, Frederick and Gettysburg Railroad. In ad- 
dition he was a promoter of many industrial companies. 
In fraternal circles he was a Royal Arch Mason, Knight 
Templar, Elk and Odd Fellow. 

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On October 29, 1879, "F. B." was married to Charlotte 
Patterson Dennis, daughter of Col. George R. Dennis, a 
prominent and influential citizen of Frederick. She died 
January 21, 1889, leaving three children: Franklin B. Jr., 
who was prepared to enter Princeton in the Class 1903, but 
began the study of medicine at the University of Maryland 
instead and died in November, 1903 ; Alice McPherson and 
Charlotte Patterson. September 21, 1892, Dr. Smith was 
married to Anne Graham Dennis who, with the daughters, 
survives. Dr. and Mrs. Smith were highly esteemed in so- 
cial and religious circles and had many friends. 

[From a sketch prepared for a history of Frederick 
County.] 

The axiom, "Death ever loves a shining mark," is particu- 
larly appropriate in the case of Dr. Franklin Buchanan 
Smith of Frederick, a man endowed with the highest quali- 
ties of mind and character and highly esteemed by the pro- 
fession and those among whom he labored. He was tried 
as by fire and not found wanting. His geniality and 
attainments made it possible for him to be the recipient of 
many honors from the hands of his brother physicians, in 
which trusts he always acquitted himself with credit. Un- 
der his directorship the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty 
prospered as never before, and by his death has lost a stead- 
fast and loyal servant. Those who knew him will always 
consider it an honor to have been numbered amongst his 
friends. Though taken away from us in his prime, his in- 
fluence will continue to be with us. Deeply religious and 
ready to meet the call of his Master, as a true soldier he 
met death without a qualm. He made himself greatly be- 
loved in his community by performing his duty without 
murmur or complaint. In the shadow of death a few well- 
selected words from his lips have enabled many a soul to 
pass over the Great River more resignedly, and to those who 

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remained he had ever a word of encouragement and sym- 
pathy. He led an active professional life and took a lead- 
ing part in each and every movement which tended to the 
uplift of his profession, and exemplified by his life the high 
possibilities of a country doctor's life. Endowed with a 
handsome face and magnificent physique, he was a marked 
figure wherever he happened to be. Added to these favors 
of nature, he had the courtly manners, dignity, ease and 
grace of a true Southern gentleman. He was an old-school 
doctor in the broadest sense. He was extremely modest 
and devoid of all vanity. [Editorial in The Maryland Medi- 
cal Journal, December, 1912.] 

Mrs. Smith writes: "His college life and associations 
were ever delightful memories and pleasant themes of con- 
versation. And I remember most vividly attending with 
him one of his Class Reunions and his interest and enthusi- 
asm were unbounded. Dr. Smith's daughter Charlotte Pat- 
terson was married to Edward J. Smith on October the 
26th, 1916, a lawyer of Frederick, Md. They have a daugh- 
ter named Charlotte Patterson for her grandmother and 
mother, born on July 19, 1917.'' H. L. H. 



FRANK SAFFORD SMITH, A.M. Died September 19, 
1903. [See Record No. VHI, page 88.] 

Frank's daughter Eleanor was married May 10, 1913, to 
Benjamin Franklin Chamberlain, Princeton '06, and they 
have a daughter Emily, born May 11, 1914. His son Julian 
went to France in January, 191 7, to drive The Princeton 
Club of New York ambulance. After serving his six 
months' enlistment with the Field Service amid many dan- 
gers but without accident to himself, he is now (August, 
1917) engaged in the Army and Navy Branch of the Y. M. 
C. A., driving a staff car near the front. 

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REV. JOHN ANDREW LIVINGSTON SMITH, A.M. 

Father, Samson Smith, born 1819 at Cross Roads, 
York Comity, Pa., farmer, died at Cross Roads June 12, 
1898. 

Mother, Eleanor McAUister, born at Cross Roads in 1819, 
died at Cross Roads in November, 1887. 

Born at Cross Roads March 12, 1853. Prepared at Airy 
View Academy, Port Royal, Pa., and entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Member of Clio Hall, room No. 2 South 
West College, standing at graduation forty-sixth, "just one- 
tenth of one per cent below 
the roll of honor grade, so 
near and yet so far, hence 
these tears." No under- 
graduate honors "but the 
consciousness of having 
done my level best on 'noth- 
ing a year' and survived the 
ordeal." Studied for a 
year, 1876-7, at Alleghany 
Theological Seminary and 
two years, 1877-9, at 
Princeton, and in 1879 re- 
ceived the A.M. degree at 
Princeton. From 1879 to 
1 88 1 he was pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Englishtown, N. J., from 1881 to 
1896 Presbyterian Home Missionary in Utah, and since 
1896 pulpit supply and missionary lecturer. He was prin- 
cipal of Hungerford Academy, Springville, Utah, from 1887 
to 1892, and of the New Jersey Academy, Logan, Utah, 
for the year 1892-3, these being missionary academies of 
the Presbyterian Church. He was Moderator of the Pres- 
bytery of Utah in 1892 and of the Presbytery of West- 




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minister, Pa., in 1907. He has been a frequent contributor 
to the rehgious and secular press. 

Married August 26, 1879, to Mary Louisa Johnson, daugh- 
ter of John Johnson, farmer. They have had six children, 
of whom the first two died in early life. All the others have 
been married since the last Record: Ethel, June 29, 191 1, 
to George H. Syckelmoore, Maud to Wm. D. Herbert, M.D., 
September 23, 1912, Samson to Grace Albitz, November 11, 
1912, and Mary to Wm. Edgar Wilkinson, June 3, 1914. 
Grandchildren: Wm. G. Syckelmoore, born April 28, 1912, 
and died the next day, Ruth Syckelmoore, May 24, 191 5, 
Jean Herbert, October 27, 19 14. Louise Prentice Wilkinson, 
May 8, 1915, and John Hodge Smith, March 13, 1916. 

John writes : "The past twenty years have been largely 
devoted to the promotion of Missions by voice and pen, the 
Sabbaths being given to preaching the gospel to the full 
measure of my ability and opportunity. For four years 
after our last Reunion I was permitted to continue my work 
in the ministry, first as a general supply of vacant pulpits 
and later as a stated, or permanent, supply of a new Pres- 
byterian church, in whose organization I had previously as- 
sisted, just outside the city a few miles. Meanwhile my 
impaired health gradually failed until I became entirely dis- 
abled and in April, 191 5, I was compelled to abandon work 
and seek relief in retirement and medical treatment. I am 
not confined to my room or home but am so prostrated and 
neuralgic that I am in constant discomfort. I therefore 
greatly doubt the wisdom, and even the possibility, of join- 
ing in such a hilarious and strenuous event as our Class 
Reunion, but I am praying that for all my dear classmates 
of ''jd our fortieth anniversary may be the happiest jubila- 
tion of their lives, a great social and spiritual incentive and 
inspiration to all who are privileged to share it." 

"Jai's" prayers were answered, he was able to be at the 

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Reunion and for all who gathered it was certainly the best 
and happiest they had experienced. On his return home he 
wrote : "There can be nothing so delightful this side of the 
other land, unless it be another '76 Reunion." 

MOSES ALLEN STARR, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D. 

Father, Egbert Starr, born at Middlebury, Vt., August 
13' i8i3> tli'y goods merchant. Stone, Starr and Company, 
married September 24, 1849, died in New York, October 
24, 1897. 

Mother, Charlotte Au- 
gusta Allen, born in New 
York September 23, 1828, 
died in New York Febru- 
ary 28, 1880. 

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
May 16, 1854. Prepared 
at the private school of Dr. 
F. A. Adams, Orange, N. 
J., and entered Princeton 
in September, 1872. At 
graduation he was third 
honor man. He won the 
French Essay prize and the 
English Essay Prize. 
Member of Clio Hall and 
roomed in town. After graduation he studied medicine at 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical De- 
partment of Columbia University, New York, from 1878 to 
1880, and in 1882 studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, 
Vienna, and Paris. He received the degree of A.M. at 
Princeton in 1879, oi M.D. at Columbia in 1880, of Ph.D. 
at Princeton in 1884, of LL.D. at Princeton in 1901, of Sc.D. 
at Columbia in 1905. His specialty is neurology and he 

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was Professor of Nervous Diseases at the New York Poly- 
clinic from 1882 to 1888, and at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons from 1888 to 191 5, when he was made Emer- 
itus Professor of Nervous Diseases. 

In presenting his resignation as Professor of Neurology 
in 1914, Dr. Starr gave an historical sketch of the depart- 
ment, from which the following extracts cannot fail to 
prove interesting. "The Department of Neurology, organ- 
ized as a definite, required Department in the Medical 
School for the first time in 1888, was in 1900 divided into 
two departments, psychiatry being established as a special 
branch. Later, in 1903, a special division was formed for 
the care of mentally defective children, sent from the pub- 
lic schools for examination and direction as to their care in 
special training schools. In 1905 the establishment of a 
research laboratory was secured for the testing of cases of 
mental disturbances of a functional kind, not insane, the 
determination of the time of mental processes and their 
delay in disease, the graphic study of the symptoms of ner- 
vous diseases, such as tremors and spasms, by the aid of 
apparatus. In 1905 a division for the application of psycho- 
therapy was formed. In 19 14 a laboratory for the study of 
the pathology and embryology of the nervous system was 
opened and equipped. 

"The number of patients visiting the ( Vanderbilt) Clinic, 
in which the nervous department was begun in 1888, now 
averages 3500 a year. Every variety of nervous disease 
that is known has been seen and studied in the Clinic and 
during the past twenty-six years several text-books have 
been published by members of the staff and by myself, based 
on the study of these cases, and about 1200 articles have 
appeared in the medical journals, forming a notable contri- 
bution to the literature of nervous diseases. 

"During these years the treatment of nervous diseases by 

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surgery has been developed, and the surgery of the brain 
and spinal cord has been advanced from the experimental 
stage to a well developed system of treatment, and many 
diseases considered hopeless in 1888 are now promptly 
cured." 

Dr. Starr has been elected to the following: N. Y. Acad- 
emy of Medicine 1881, N. Y. Neurological Society 1882, 
American Neurological Association 1883, American Associa- 
tion of Physicians 1886, American Medical Association 
1890, London Neurological Society, Neurological Section 
of the Royal Society 1894, Societe de Psychiatric de Paris 
1894, Societe de Neurologic de Paris 1898^ Gesellschaft 
Deutsche Nervenartze 1906, Wiener Gesellschaft Nerven- 
artze 1913. 

The election to the German Neurological Association is 
an especial honor as only one other American has received 
it. 

He is the author of Familiar Forms of Nervous Disease, 
Wm. Wood & Co., N. Y., 1890; Lectures on Nervous Dis- 
eases, J. Dougherty, N. Y., 1893 J Lectures on Insanity, J. 
Dougherty, N. Y., 1893 ; Brain Surgery, Wm. Wood & Co., 
N. Y., 1894; Atlas of Nerve Cells, Macmillan Co., N. Y., 
1897 ; Organic Nervous Diseases, Lea & Febiger, Philadel- 
phia and N. Y., 1906 ; Organic and Functional Nervous 
Diseases, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and N. Y., 1909; 
Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases, 3rd edition. Lea 
& Febiger, Philadelphia and N. Y., 1913; numerous articles 
in medical journals of America and England. 

Other positions held are Treasurer of the West Side 
Day Nursery, Consulting Physician to the Presbyterian, 
St. Vincents, New York Eye and Ear Hospitals, and St. 
Mary's Free Hospital for Children, Attending Physician to 
the Vanderbilt Clinic from 1888 to 1917, Trustee of Middle- 
bury College, Vt. 

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Dr. Starr's clubs are University Club of New York 1884, 
Century Association 1890, Princeton Club 1894, Ecwanok 
and Bedford Golf Clubs. 

Married in New York June 8, 1898, to Alice Dunning, 
daughter of Benjamin Franklin Dunning, A.B., lawyer. 
Allen Egbert Starr was born January 19, 1902, and died 
February 10, 1916; Katharine Eunice Starr was born 
March i, 1904. 

Starr adds: "My resignation as Professor of Neurology 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons was accepted 
July I, 1915, but I was made at once Emeritus Professor 
of Neurology and the Trustees voted to carry out immedi- 
ately a number of recommendations I made regarding the 
future policy of the Department. I am spending the sum- 
mer (1916) in California and shall not be able to attend 
the Reunion." 

REV. ALEXANDER RUSSELL STEVENSON, D.D. 

Father, John McPherson Stevenson, born December 6, 
1818, in Bedford County, Pa., commission merchant, grain 
and produce, Stevenson and Sons, 165 North Howard Street, 
Baltimore, Md., attended Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 
Pa., married at Gettysburg May 9, 1854, died January 27, 
1904, at Schenectady, N. Y., and was buried at Gettysburg. 

Mother, Margaretta Eliza Paxton, born near Gettysburg, 
November 29, 1819, died July 15, 1895, ^t Lake George, 
N. Y., and was buried at Gettysburg. 

Born December 29, 1856, at 226 Madison Avenue, Balti- 
more, Md. Prepared at Chambersburg Academy, Pa., and 
entered Princeton in sophomore year, September, 1873. At 
graduation he was fourth in the Class. For one term in 
senior year he was President of the Class of '76. From 
September, 1877 to May, 1879, he was a student at the 
Union Theological Seminary, and from September, 1879, 

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to May, 1880, at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Or- 
dained a Presbyterian minister in December, 1880, pastor 
of Brainerd Presbyterian Church, Easton, Pa., December, 
1880 to March, 1888, and of the First Presbyterian Church, 
Schenectady, N. Y., from April i, 1888, to the present time. 
He received the degree of D.D. from Union College, 
Schenectady. 

Married April 11, 1882, at Chambersburg, Pa., to Mary 
Margaret Kennedy, daughter of Col. Thomas B. Kennedy, 
A.B. Franklin College, Mercersburg, Pa., President of the 
Cumberland Valley Railroad. . They have had four chil- 
dren, one of whom has died. The oldest, Thomas Ken- 
nedy, Princeton '05, C.E., was married May 21, 1912, to 
Candace Thurber of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; he is Sales Manager 
of the Western Electric Company at St. Louis. Alexander 
Russell, Jr., Princeton '14, C.E., took a post-graduate course 
at Union College and received the degree of M.S. in 191 5. 
Stuart Riddle is at Princeton in the class of 1918. There is 
one grandchild, Caroline Stuart Stevenson, born December 
26, 1913. 

Russell was elected a member of the *. B. K. Society, 
Princeton Chapter, in 191 5. 

On June 8, 1916, he wrote: "Give my love to all who 
gather for the Reunion and tell them that I am sorry not 
to be with them. I should like to shake the hand and see 
the face of each of them. I am sorry not to be with them 
all." 

REV. GEORGE BLACK STEWART, D.D., LL.D., S.T.D. 

Father, Alexander Adams Stewart, born at Johnstown, 
N. Y., October 12, 181 5, merchant tailor, married in 1845, 
died at Norwalk, Ohio, April 29, 1888. 

Mother, Louisa Susannah Black, born at Academia, Pa., 
August I, 1830, still living. 

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Born at Columbus, O., 
February 28, 1854. Pre- 
pared at Columbus, Ohio, 
High School, and entered 
Princeton in September, 
1872. Member of Clio Hall 
and roomed in No. 2 North 
West. Rank at graduation 
thirteenth. Editor of Lit., 
w o n Sophomore Essay 
prize in Clio, etc. He 
studied theology at the 
Seminary of the North- 
west, now McCormick 
Seminary 1876-7, and at 
Auburn Seminary 1877-9. 
Degrees received, D.D. from Washington and Jefferson Col- 
lege in 1892, LL.D. from the same in 1900, S.T.D. from 
Hobart College in 1910. From 1879 to 1884, pastor of Cal- 
vary Presbyterian Church, Auburn, N. Y., from 1884 to 
1899 pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harris- 
burg, Pa. President of Auburn Theological Seminary and 
Professor of Practical Theology from 1899. 

Trustee of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., 1885 to 
1900; trustee of Princeton University since 1887; trustee of 
the United Society of Christian Endeavor since 1898; di- 
rector and one time President of the Religious Education 
Association. In 1913 he was elected Chairman of a Joint 
Commission of Theological Seminaries and the Federal 
Council of Churches to recommend a course of study for 
prospective Protestant ministers in social and industrial 
problems. He has been a member of many of the most 
important committees of the General Assembly of the Pres- 
byterian Church. Author of A History of the Presbyterian 



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Church of Harrisburg, Life of Jesus for Juniors, Normal 
Outlines of Jewish History, Efificiency Tests for Pastors 
and Churches, etc. 

Married June i8, 1879, to Mary Adeline Thompson, who 
died July 2, 1903. To them were born four children : Helen 
was married to Rev. Edwin Huyler June 21, 191 1, and they 
have a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Huyler; Harris Bates, 
Princeton '03, is a Presbyterian clergyman; George B., Jr., 
Princeton '06, is Treasurer of the College at Beirut, Syria, 
was married August i, 191 1, to Janet C. Wilson, and has a 
son George B. HI, born August 8, 1914; Weir, Princeton 
'15, in 1916 offered himself to the International Y. M. C. A. 
for service with the British forces in Mesopotamia, and to 
help him equip a Princeton "hut" the sum of $500 was 
raised by a few members of the Class of '76 during 1916-7. 

"Paley" was married December 7, 1914, at the Brick 
Presbyterian Church, New York City, to Ella LaRue Hart, 
of Harrisburg, Pa., daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
William B. Hart. 

HENRY CLEVES SYMMES, A.M., M.D., was of good 
Anglo-Saxon stock, the first of the name arriving in New 
England in 1634. Henry's great grandfather went from 
New Jersey to Ohio in the later years of the eighteenth 
century and there attained a position of much prominence. 
His grandson and Henry's father, Joseph Gaston Symmes, 
was born January 24, 1826, in a log cabin on a farm in 
Butler County, Ohio, graduated from Hanover College in 
1 85 1, and from Princeton Seminary in 1854, "boarding 
with Miss Jane Comfort at $2 per week" for a portion of 
the time. 

The pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, N. 
J., was Rev. Dr. Symmes C. Henry, and to his daughter, 
Mary Rosebrook Henry, Joseph Symmes was married May 

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23, 1854, two weeks after 

^^s^i^Bfc^ his graduation from the 

^K^milMM/ll^ \ Seminary. Accepting a 

jpUr^^^ 'mjm call to Madison, Indiana, 

f^ _., J^i he entered upon his first 

pastorate in the fall of 

1854, and there remained 

until 1857, when, his 

father-in-law having died 

quite suddenly, he was in- 

^^^^^^^ ^^ vited to become his succes- 

j ^^^P^^ ^^Hb^ sor, and in May he was in- 

^^^B ^ j^^^^^^m stalled in this, his second 

^^^^m J^j^ ^^^^^^^m ^^^d last, charge, for he con- 

HHH^ilR iflHU^HH tinned here until his death 

June 23, 1894. The degree 
of D.D. was conferred upon him by Hanover College. 

Henry Symmes was born at Madison, Indiana, May 9, 
1855, was educated at private schools and under a tutor, and 
entered Princeton in 1872, taking the full academic course. 
After graduation he entered the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his 
degree of M.D. in 1880, and immediately he began the 
practice of medicine at Cranbury, increasing steadily in use- 
fulness and service until his own call came to the life be- 
yond. From early youth he was a member of the com- 
munion of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, and 
for more than twenty-five years he was a Ruling Elder 
and for more than fifteen Clerk of Session. The inter- 
ests and welfare of the church always held the first place 
with him, and seldom, if ever, was he absent from his place 
at church services. Shortly before his death the church 
laid out a plot of ground for a new residence section, the 
plans being suggested by Henry and the details carried out 



under his supervision, with the intent of saving a beautiful 
avenue of fine old trees. In his memory the trustees of the 
church have named the Avenue Symmes Court and a street 
Henry Avenue. Dr. Symmes was a Trustee of the Presby- 
tery of Monmouth and attended the meeting of the General 
Assembly at Minneapolis in 1899 as one of its commission- 
ers. 

Professional and religious interests did not prevent his 
taking active part in civic affairs, and he served as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education for several years and later 
as Physical Examiner of Schools for Cranbury Township, 
in which his duties were to make a physical examination of 
pupils and to exercise a general oversight over their health. 
Ten days before his death he attended a meeting of the 
State Board of Education at Lakewood, having been chosen 
as particularly competent to tell of the work of Examining 
Physician in rural schools. His civic interest extended to 
the athletic activities of the young men and he was a regu- 
lar supporter of the town's baseball team, encouraging the 
players by his presence whenever possible. 

His medical ministry quite naturally made him the friend 
and adviser of his patients in many instances, and to the 
poor he was most kind and faithful, accepting this oppor- 
tunity as a special work for his Heavenly Father. A noted 
surgeon, to whose skill Henry often referred patients, said : 
"Cranbury does not know what it has lost — not only one of 
the best of physicians and one who was a Christian gentle- 
man, but one who when he entered your house was also 
brother, adviser and minister.'' 

Those who knew Henry at Princeton will recall his ex- 
treme modesty and humble opinion of his ability, but they 
remember his genuine worth, his sincerity, his strong prin- 
ciples and his genius for friendship. Probably few had 
any idea that he had quite a talent for putting his thoughts 

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into rhyme, but in Cranbury his productions of this sort 
were in much demand and graced a variety of occasions, 
such as banquets of the directors of the bank, Village Im- 
provement Society gatherings. Women's Club receptions, 
and family gatherings, weddings and anniversaries. On his 
long drives into the country to see patients he beguiled the 
hours creating these verses, marked commonly by a genial 
humor, at times not lacking in pathos. 

Classmates will remember that Henry was an almost un- 
failing attendant at Reunions, though his professional duties 
rarely permitted him to remain away from home over night. 
He was most loyal to his Alma Mater and his Class was al- 
ways most dear to his heart. But his home, his profession, 
his church, his community filled his life to the full and he 
had little time for anything outside their circle, even for 
the Middlesex County Medical Society of which he was 
a member. 

After his father's death his mother became a member of 
his household, but she survived the shock of her husband's 
demise only a brief space and passed away March 3, 1895. 
Henry commonly enjoyed good health, but in the early 
spring of 1914 his travels about the country in the severe 
weather overtaxed his strength. He seemed to recover en- 
tirely, however, and continued his active duties until May 
3, when he became violently ill and the next day was taken 
to St. Francis Hospital in Trenton and an operation was at 
once performed. This revealed an abscess on the pancreas 
and a gall stone, and the case was deemed almost hopeless 
from the first, but he lived until the evening of May 8. In- 
flammation had set in and he died of general peritonitis, 
about an hour and a half before entering his fifty-ninth 
birthday. 

He was married at Washington, D. C, May 9, 1882, to 
Hattie M. Sutphen, daughter of Josephus John Sutphen, a 

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business man prominently connected with the early history 
of Omaha, Nebraska, and she is still living at Cranbury. 
In addition he leaves two brothers, Rev. Frank R. Symmes, 
Princeton '8i, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ten- 
nent, N. J., and Rev. Joseph G. Symmes, Princeton '92, of 
Mendham, N. J. Another brother, Addison H. Symmes, 
died in 1913. 

The Session of the Cranbury church spread the following 
upon its minutes : "Resolved that we bear loving testi- 
mony to his worth as a careful, wise, conscientious and 
faithful member of this body, and our sense of irreparable 
loss both as counselor and friend; to the great loss sus- 
tained by the community, to a large portion of which he 
was not only a skillful physician but a confidential friend, 
exhibiting in each relationship the spirit of his Master, the 
Great Physician." H. L. H. 



JOHN MADISON TAYLOR, A.M., M.D 

Father, William John- 
son Taylor, born in Phila- 
delphia, Pa., in 1832, B.Sc. 
Yale Scientific, married in 
1854, Professor of Chemis- 
try in Mobile, Ala., died ^,,^^. 
April 6, 1864, in Philadel- ^ 
phia from the efi:ects of 
army exposure. 

Mother, Mary E. Bear- 
den, born at Knoxville, 
Tenn., October 9, 1835, 
died in October, 1902, at 
Terrell, Texas. 

Born July 4, 1855, at 
Lancaster, Pa. Prepared 




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at Rugby Academy, Philadelphia, and entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Was first President of the Class in 1872, 
member of Clio Hall, rank at graduation forty-eighth, 
roomed in Reunion, then in 17 South West. After gradu- 
ation he entered the Medical Department of the University 
of Pennsylvania and received the degree of M.D. in 1878. 
Princeton gave the degree of A.M. in 1879. 

"I have practiced medicine since graduation in May, 
1878. First service — Resident Physician of Children's Hos- 
pital, then actively in divers and sundry Dispensary service. 
First full hospital position, Chief of throat and chest in 
Howard Hospital. Transferred later to Neurologic Service. 
Professor of Diseases of Children at the Philadelphia Poly- 
clinic College for Graduates for sixteen years. Chief of 
Clinic for Dr. Weir Mitchell at the Orthopedic Hospital and 
Infirmary for Nervous Diseases for about sixteen years. 
In 1903 for one year also Professor of Diseases of Children 
in the Medico-Chirurgical College. In 1905 Attending 
Physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital (Blockley), 
Children's Department. In 1912 Associate Professor of 
Therapeutic non-Pharmaceutic (i.e. physical remedies) 
Medical Department, Temple University. Now Professor 
of Applied Therapeutics in the same Institution. Many 
years ago became Consulting Physician to the Elwyn Train- 
ing School for the Feeble Minded; also to the Vineland 
Training School for Feeble Minded and 'The Lindens,' Miss 
Bancroft's private school for backward minded at Haddon- 
field. 

"For many years my work has been largely among cer- 
tain forms of nervous or chronic diseases of mind and body, 
my particular interests lying in systematic conservation of 
health, reconstructive therapeutics. One of my boyhood fa- 
cilities, draughtsmanship, early gave me opportunities not 
only to learn much of anatomy, normal and morbid, but to 

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make warm friends of leading men in the profession by 
executing for them drawings in black and white and in col- 
ors ; also to make a good deal of much needed money. I 
illustrated a number of medical and surgical books, special 
articles, etc., also making special drawings of interesting 
conditions, which gave me opportunities for seeing rare 
autopsies, operations, etc. Also during Dr. Weir Mitchell's 
researches on the venoms of serpents I was working as 
assistant to Professor Reichert in the physiologic laboratory, 
and thus I collaborated as special artist in that memorable 
research which was published by the Smithsonian Institute 
and became the origin of a long series of researches in the 
physiology of the saliva of reptiles and thence of other 
secretions and tissues. 

"I have evoked a specialty of my own which I name Re- 
constructive Personal Hygiene, or Reconstructive Thera- 
peutics, which includes all those remedial and restitutive or 
rehabilitative measures capable of raising the index of effi- 
ciency of an individual to whatsoever plane their inherent 
powers render possible. 

"My opportunities for clinical work in nervous diseases 
tempted me to elaborate in this domain, and I gradually 
achieved a clientele among the group of sufferers from what 
are called nervous diseases, but are not strictly neurology. 
This includes the conditions of developmental faults, sub- 
acute and chronic disorders, of both mind and body, in 
which so-called phenomena of 'nervousness' prevails, psy- 
chopathies, neuropathies, asthenias, and the multifarious 
and baffling combinations of somatic and psychic disabilities. 
I am to-day busy in ministering to this heterogeneous group 
of sufferers and I have acquired insight and control through 
peculiar methods all my own, learned here and there, seiz- 
ing on what seemed to me important practical and economic 
points and achieving skill in applying them. 

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"Since my training in Psychology under our revered 
President James McCosh, I have uniformly read and famil- 
iarized myself with the resources of psychology and ap- 
plied them to my daily work; and they have enabled me to 
secure the key to many baffling problems ; not only so, but 
morbid mental processes always fascinated me and my 
knowledge of reconstructive measures combined with this 
has enabled me to render service to a multitude of com- 
plex sufferers who had failed of relief at the hands of bet- 
ter men. This appetite for knowledge of the mental proces- 
ses has given a quality to much of my clinical work and led 
to a study of the practical utilization of the reflexes, espe- 
cially those which can be elicited in reinforcing vital proc- 
esses, as of the vaso-motor, the vagus, the sympathetics, 
and thus I have become a recognized pioneer in a new do- 
main of medical art, or application of science, which has 
been so largely preempted by irregular practitioners doing 
business under the absurd names of osteopaths, chiroprac- 
tors, mechano-neural therapists, et id onine genus. 

"Soon after graduation I became the locum tenens of 
seven of the chiefs in the University Hospital while they 
were on vacations, and during this summer an intelligent 
Swedish masseur was employed to work in the wards and 
to instruct the nurses. I became deeply interested in his 
work ; I perceived the value of it ; I besought him to teach 
me and well he did, giving me glimpses in what was then a 
new way of improving life and repairing damages, and I 
speedily became an expert. Soon after this Dr. Weir 
Mitchell took me on as his office assistant. He was the 
great apostle of physical methods and the first man to 
elaborate and apply massage and Swedish movements. He 
wanted some one to teach the classes at the Infirmary for 
Nervous Diseases, so here was my opportunity. Long be- 
fore the Osteopath appeared I was giving courses in meas- 

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ures which were very similar. To these I added thoughtful 
adaptations of my gymnastic and athletic teachings and 
evolved a system of Regulative and Particularized Move- 
ments suitable for restoring impaired static mechanisms, 
affording increased self-support to vital structures, hence 
contributing materially to physiologic betterments. 

"Dr. Mitchell had me 'try out' all the divers claimants as 
experts in massage desiring employment, and thus I learned 
from literally hundreds of men and women from all parts 
of the world. One of these was a Moor from the Ham- 
man near Carthage, another a Russian wonder-worker. 
Among those to whom I am chiefly indebted was the late 
Dr. John P. Arnold, who had accidentally become inter- 
ested in similar lines. He was for seven years Demon- 
strator of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania 
and experimented scientifically in the laboratory and learned 
and verified a number of invaluable principles which could 
be applied to clinical problems. By far the most valuable 
experience was reading the works of, and meeting. Dr. Al- 
bert Abrams. 

'T could write an essay on 'Openmindedness vs. Credulity,' 
having kept my mind open to learn new and useful measures, 
methods and principles and I hope to complete a book en- 
titled Reconstructive Therapeutics based on physico-dynam- 
ics, dealing with the human body as a thing of mass and 
motion, of statics, of stresses, of strains and supports, of 
reflexes, etc. I have written and lectured much on this 
subject and hope to live long enough to put on record some- 
thing worth while. 

"The largest event in my medical career was also quite 
accidental. Dr. Charles E. de M. Sajous read a paper be- 
fore the County Medical Society about 1900 on the signifi- 
cance of the ductless glands. In the discussions which fol- 
lowed there were many who assessed him as a pipe dreamer. 



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I felt that here was some great matter which must be 
treated open-mindedly, so I begged for explanation. This 
he most courteously and clearly gave, and I constantly learn 
from him vastly more than I can take in and digest. 

"My scientific and literary contributions date from 1890, 
and now I am engaged on three books and have one in press. 
The first book was Manual of Diseases of Children, in col- 
laboration with Dr. Wm. H. Wells. After three editions I 
turned over my part to Dr. Jas. H. McKee and now it ap- 
pears in two volumes, Practical Pediatrics. To this I con- 
tributed an appendix of 200 pages on Development and De- 
velopmental Anomalies, in which is a chapter on the duct- 
less glands, the first time this has been brought into direct 
relationship to clinical conditions of children. I have now 
in press a book on which I expended an enormous amount 
of labor, and had the cooperation of a score or more of the 
leaders in Psychology, Clinical Medicine, Genealogy, etc., 
called 'Myself and 'Ourselves" — a means of keeping pre- 
cise and personal records of the happenings in the life his- 
tory of an individual ('Myself') and a married couple and 
their children ('Ourselves'). This is a genetic family ac- 
count book. 

"I have nearly completed a semi-popular, semi-medical 
book entitled The Young Man of Fifty — conferences with 
men and women of middle age (40 to 60) who wish to re- 
main at the acme of their capacities so long as they earn the 
right to do so. While much has been written on old age 
and much on How to Live, nothing has been done for those 
who are at the top notch of their capacities or passing into 
the 'lengthening shadows.' I have also nearly completed a 
little book entitled : The Nervous Invalid as a Factor in So- 
ciety, with advice to family and friends. When these are 
ofif my hands I intend to write a treatise on Reconstructive 
Therapeutics which will keep me busy till I am too old to 
work." 

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"Jack" was married at St. Stephen's Church, Philadel- 
phia, October 15, 1879, to Emily Heyward Drayton, daugh- 
ter of Henry Edward Drayton, M.D., University of Penn- 
sylvania. They have three children, of whom two are mar- 
ried, and four grandchildren. 

He is a Fellow of the Societe de Hygiene de France, 
American Academy of Medicine, American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, College of Physicians of Phil- 
adelphia ; Member of the American Medical Association, 
American Climatological and Clinical Association, Ameri- 
can Therapeutic Association, and many others. 

Member of University Club, Princeton Club, Medical 
Club, Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
Sons of the Revolution, American Medical Editors' Associa- 
tion, etc., etc. 

PROF. HENRY ALFRED TODD, Ph.D. 

Father, Rev. Richard Kimball Todd, born October 14, 
1814, at Rowley, Mass., married in New York in 1847, 
Presbyterian clergyman, Princeton A.B. 1842, A.M. 1845, 
Princeton Theological Seminary, died at Woodstock, 111., 
in 1894. 

Mother, Martha Jane Clover, born in New York Decem- 
ber 6, 1821, died at Woodstock, III, in 1892. 

Born at Woodstock March 13, 1854. Prepared at Todd 
Seminary, Woodstock, 111., and entered Princeton in Sep- 
tember, 1874. Standing at graduation sixth, member of 
Clio Hall, roomed in 43 North College. At Commencement 
he had the Belles Lettres Oration, and won the Boudinot 
Modern Language Fellowship. 

He was a Fellow and tutor at Princeton 1876 to 1880, 
student at the Universities of Paris, Berlin, Rome and 
Madrid 1880 to 1883. Instructor at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity 1883 to 1891, Professor of Romanic Languages at 

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Stanford University 1891 to 1893, Professor of Romance 
Philology at Columbia University since 1893. 

He was a Trustee and Elder at the West Park Presby- 
terian Church, New York, until 1914. 

Todd is President of the Philological Association of Stan- 
ford University, elected in 1833 Member Perpetuel Societe 
des Anciens Textes Francais, in 1893 Member of the New 
York Academy of Sciences ; President of the Alodern Lan- 
guage Association; Member of the Hispanic Society of 
America, Dante Society and Dialect Society. In 1904 he 
was a delegate to the Congress of Arts and Sciences at 
St. Louis. 

Clubs : Independent, trustee and member of executive 
committee. Century, Barnard. 

He is the author of various philological works, and the 
founder and co-editor of The Romanic Rcviezv, a quarterly 
published by Columbia University. 

Married in Baltimore, Md., July 30, 1891, to Miriam 
Gilman, daughter of John Stratton Oilman, President of 
the Second National Bank of Baltimore. They have two 
sons and two daughters. 

Todd writes: "My two sons are at the Hill School and 
are headed for Princeton. My two daughters are actively 
interested in charitable and social organizations in New 
York." 

ROBERT NAIRNE TODD. Died November 18, 1906. 
[See Record No. IX; page 145.] 

ARTHUR BALDWIN TURNURE, A.M., LL.B. Died 
April 13, 1906. [See Record No. VIII, page 99.] 

REV. ALBERT VAN DEUSEN. Died January 10, 1886. 
[See Record No. IV, page no.] 

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The Manse, 
Hudson, N. Y., 

July lo, 1917. 
H. L. Harrison, Esq. 
My dear Sir: 

In answer to your letter let me say that Mr. Albert Van 
Deusen was never married. His parents were John and 
Jerusha Van Deusen. I saw much of Albert during his 
long illness, caused by overwork in connection with his first 
parish in Harlem, and I buried him from the old church of 
his youth. He was one of the finest characters I have 
known in the forty-five years of my ministry. 
I am, 

Faithfully yours, 

Geo. C. Yeisley '70. 

JOHN SKILLMAN VAN DIKE, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Henry Hunt Van Dike, born October 2, 1821, 
married February 7, 1844, farmer, died at Hopewell, N. J., 
February 28, 1893. 

Mother, Margaretta Skillman, born at Rocky Hill, N. J., 
March 26, 1824, died at Hopewell June 10, 1897. 

Born at Princeton, N. J., March 27, 1853. Prepared by 
tutors and entered Princeton in 1872. Member of Clio 
Hall, roomed in No. 2 North College. Studied law and 
engaged in its practice from 1879 to 1909, in Hopewell for 
about twenty years, then in Trenton, N. J. He has been 
Vice-President and director of the Hopewell National 
Bank and in 1893, was appointed by the State Board of 
Education Superintendent of Public Instruction for Mer- 
cer County. 

Married December 27, 1888, at Athens, Pa., to Henrietta 
Spaulding Murray, daughter of Edward Abner Murray, 
farmer, and they have one son. 

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He writes from Allentown, N. J., July 6, 1917: "You 
will notice the change of address. In 191 5 our son having 
become dissatisfied with the place where we were, near 
Bordentown, of only a few acres and wanting to be a real 
farmer, we obtained the place where we are now living of 
about two hundred acres and he is following the injunction 
of our honored President and doing all and the best he can 
to help feed the world. 

"I was very sorry not to be at the last Reunion but was so 
situated that it was impossible to come." 



WILLIAM BIRD VAN LENNEP, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.S. 

Father, Rev. Henry John 
Van Lennep, D.D., born in 
Smyrna, Turkey, March 8, 
1815, Amherst A.B. and 
A.M. 1837, graduated at 
Hartford Seminary in 1840, 
married at Hartford Conn., 
in 1850, missionary, died at 
Great Barrington, Mass, in 
January, 1889. 

Mother, Emily Ann Bird, 
born in January, 1825, in 
Beirut, Syria, died in Phil- 
adelphia in January, 1898. 
Born in Constantinople, 
Turkey, December 5, 1853. 
Prepared at Sedgwick Institute and entered Princeton in 
September, 1872. Member of Clio Hall, roomed in 6 South 
West. Member of University Glee Club, Class and Uni- 
versity Crew. After graduation he studied medicine at the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and received 
the degree of M.D. in 1880. Princeton awarded the degree 




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of A.M. in 1879. He is a Founder of the American College 
of Surgery. His specialty is surgery and he is Attending, 
or Consulting, Surgeon to all the homeopathic hospitals in 
Philadelphia and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania, New- 
Jersey and Delaware. In 1882 he went to Europe and spent 
two years in the study of surgery, most of it in Vienna, 
then in Paris and London. He became a lecturer on Gen- 
eral Pathology and Clinical and Didactic Surgery in Hahne- 
mann Medical College, and editor of The Hahnemann 
Monthly. Since 1894 he has been Professor of Surgery in 
Hahnemann Medical College, Dean of the Faculty from 
1910 to 1914. 

He is a member of local. State and National Medical So- 
cieties, numerous medical clubs, and honorary member of 
various medical associations. 

Author of numerous medical brochures and of sections of 
composite works. 

Clubs : Union League, Bachelors' Barge, Orpheus, Prince- 
ton, Masonic Order, and many others. 

Married in Philadelphia April 28, 1886, to Clara Reeves 
Hart, daughter of Thomas Hart, merchant, retired. Their 
only child, Rebecca Reeves, was married April 3, 1907, to 
John Dean Elliott, M.D., Princeton '97, and they have three 
children: Frances, born June 3, 1908, John Dean, Jr., July 
16, 1909, and Clara Hart, April 30, 1912. 

In May, 1916, at the annual banquet of the Alumni As- 
sociation of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital 
of Philadelphia a portrait of Dr. Van Lennep, painted by 
Henry Rittenberg, was presented to the college by friends 
and former pupils. The President of the Alumni Associa- 
tion referred to "Big Van" as "the best surgeon, the best 
fellow, and the very best Dean that ever served the Hahne- 
mann Medical College ; it was due to his untiring efforts and 
his unusual ability and skill that this college ranks to-day 

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in the high standard of requirements as Class A," The 
Dean, in the course of his presentation speech, said, among 
other things : "As a teacher of surgery Dr. Van Lennep is 
unquestionably without a peer. . . . Dr. Van Lennep's per- 
sonal lectures and clinics have a finish and a style which 
make them classics of their kind. ... As an operator he is 
adept and dextrous, judiciously conservative and wisely 
bold. . . . His opinion in surgical diagnosis and treatment 
is invaluable. ... I can truthfully say that Dr. Van Len- 
nep's work, life and talents have been consecrated to the 
interests and welfare of Hahnemann College and Hospital. 
There is not a man on the college faculty or hospital staff 
whose heart and soul are so wrapped up in the success of 
this institution as his ; not one who takes so little diversion 
or who has so few outside attractions as he." 

In accepting the portrait the representative of the Trus- 
tees spoke of Van as "one of Hahnemann's greatest assets 
to-day."' 

LAPSLEY GREENE WALKER, LL.B. 

Father, Francis Marion Walker, born at Paris, Ky., Feb- 
ruary 28, 1827, graduate of Transylvania College, Lexing- 
ton, Ky., lawyer. Confederate Brigadier General, killed in 
battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. 

Mother, Margaret Kelso, born at Rogersville, Tenn., in 
July, 1836, died at Chattanooga in 1891. 

Prepared at the McMinn Academy, Rogersville, Tenn., 
and entered Princeton in 1872. Member of Whig Hall and 
librarian of the Society, rank at graduation about the mid- 
dle of the Class, roomed in 5 North College, 7 North East, 
and then in town. 

After graduation he read law, was admitted to the bar 
in 1878 after examination by the Supreme Court and prac- 
ticed law for four years at Rogersville. In 1882 he moved 

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to Chattanooga. He had 
been editing newspapers 
since leaving Princeton and 
at Chattanooga was editor 
of The Daily Democrat. 
On May 3, 1883, he went 
to The Chattanooga Times 
and has been with it ever 
since, being now editor-in- 
chief. 

He has been Chairman of 
the Chattanooga Board of 
PubHc Works, President of 
the Hamilton County Elec- 
tion Commission, and has 
declined all political offer- 
ings. He is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees of 
Hamilton County Industrial School, whose aim is the recla- 
mation of delinquent girls and boys. 

He is a member of the Mountain City Club and the Chat- 
tanooga Golf and Country Club ; has been a Mason since 
1878 ; served through the official chairs of Lookout Com- 
mandery of Chattanooga; entered the Grand Commandery 
of the State in the lowest rank; served through all the sta- 
tions and was Acting Grand Commander for one year and 
Grand Commander for another year — making two years of 
service in that exalted position. 

He says : "I am the author of a string of editorial stuff 
— how good or worth while the Lord only knows — that put 
together in column widths would reach from Chattanooga 
to Princeton." 

Married September 12, 1883, to Adela Branham, daugh- 
ter of L R. Branham, a Baptist clergyman, A.M. and D.D. 
of the University of Georgia. 



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Two or three years ago he wrote : "We are getting along 
in years and I had it impressed on me the other day rather 
emphatically. One of the steel men here at a recent confer- 
ence was playing golf on our course and asked his caddy 
who the gentleman was playing just ahead of him, meaning 
me. 'That,' said the caddy, 'is Mr. Walker, editor of The 
Times. He's a nice, clever old gentleman, but can't play 
much golf!' Pathetic, isn't it? Just to let you know how 
it is with me I am sending you a photo of 'Yap' Walker 
taken the morning of his sixtieth birthday." 

LEWIS MALFORD WALKER. Died May lo. 1878. 
[See Record No. IV, page 119.] 

REV. DE LACEY WARDLAW, A.M. 

Father Thomas DeLacey Wardlaw, born near Newry, 
Ireland. November i, 1826. 

Mother, Louisa Fisher, born April 4, 1829, in Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Born at Paris, Ky., November 5, 1856. Prepared at Shel- 
byville, Tenn., by his father, spent four years at Stewart 
College, Clarksville, Tenn.. and entered Princeton in the 
fall of 1875. In the fall of 1876 he entered Princeton Semi- 
nary, and in 1877 took charge of a church in Rogersville, 
Tenn. In 1878 he went to Union Seminary, in Virginia, 
where he was graduated in April, 1880. In April, 1879. he 
was licensed to preach in the Presbyterian Church at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn., and was ordained in the First Presbyterian 
Church, Nashville, Tenn. July 4, 1880. In 1879 he received 
the degree of A.M. from Princeton. On August 5, 1880, 
he sailed for Brazil as a missionary of the Presbyterian 
Church, South, and in the following April preached his first 
sermon in Portuguese. In spite of ill health which necessi- 
tated trips to the homeland, in the next five years he organ- 



ized two churches and wrote much for the press. In it 
9 he was American Vice-Consul at Ceara, Brazil. Spent 
part of 1889 in the United States. Returning to Brazil in 
1890 he accepted Brazilian citizenship. He had two prov- 
inces as his parish, and where there were no Protestants in 
1883, there were more than five hundred in 1891, of whom 
about one hundred were church members. In 1901 he re- 
turned to this country, taking up his residence in Bell 
Buckle, Tenn., and engaged in lecturing, preaching, teach- 
ing and farming. 

Married July 29, 1880, to Mary Hoge, of Virginia, daugh- 
ter of Dr. William J. Hoge. They have four daughters: 
Virginia Randolph, born in Pernambuco^ Brazil, married 
James William Adamson, of England, May 5, 1908, to whom 
three children have been born, they now live in Buenos 
Ayres, Argentina ; Blanche, born in Ceara, Brazil, married 
Frank Reeves Welb, of Nashville, Tenn., December 28, 
1909; Mary Louise, born in Ceara, went as a missionary to 
Cuba in 191 1 and there married William MacKean Thom- 
son, of Nova Scotia, manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, 
at Santiago de Cuba, August 22, 1912, they have two chil- 
dren ; Caroline, born in Ceara, now living in Santiago de 
Cuba. 

DeLacey attended the Reunion in 1916, his first since 
graduation, and his enjoyment in meeting classmates and 
revisiting Princeton well repaid him for his long railway 
journey. 

SPENCER WEART, A.M., LL.B. 

Father, Jacob Weart, born near Stoutsburgh, Somerset 
County, N. J., lawyer. 

Mother, Catharine Jane Van Winkle, born opposite the 
present city of Passaic, in Bergen County, N. J. 

Born September 5, 1856, prepared at Hasbrouck Institute, 

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Jersey City, N. J., and entered Princeton in the fall of 1872. 
Roomed in town, then in 5 North Reunion. After gradu- 
ation he studied law and was duly admitted to practice, 
which he has continued to the present in Jersey City. For 
a number of years he was Corporation Attorney of Jersey 
City. He has also been counsel of the Consolidated Trac- 
tion Company of New Jersey and General Counsel of the 
North Jersey Street Railway Company. While Corporation 
Attorney he prepared many statutes relating to municipal 
matters, which were duly enacted by the State legislature. 

Married in Jersey City, N. J., April 17, 1888, to Clara S. 
Pendexter, daughter of Gustavus Francis Pendexter. 

The "Little One" has a farm about twelve miles from 
Princeton and three miles from New Brunswick, and he 
divides his time about equally between agriculture and the 
law. 

HENRY HORACE WEBSTER. Died January 17, 1891. 
[See Record No. V, page 85.] 

REV. IRVING ELISHA WHITE, A.M. 

Father, Elisha Strong White, born at Windham, Greene 
County, N. Y., in 1804, married at Ashland, N. Y., farmer, 
died at Ashland. 

Mother, Jane Doane, born in 1809 on Staten Island, N. Y., 
died at Towanda, Pa. 

Born at Ashland, N. Y., September 5, 1849. Prepared at 
Stamford Academy, Stamford, N. Y., and entered Prince- 
ton in 1872. Member of Clio Hall, roomed in 17 North 
West. After graduation he taught for a year, then entered 
Union Theological Seminary, N. Y., and was graduated in 
1880. In 1879 he received the degree of A.M. from Prince- 
ton. In June, 1880, he was ordained and installed as pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church, Hobart, N. Y. In June, 

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i886, he accepted a call to Peekskill, N. Y., the Second 
Presbyterian Church, and there remained until 1896 when 
his health compelled him to take a year's rest, after which, 
in 1897, he became pastor of the Presbyterian church at 
Port Chester, N. Y., where he spent thirteen years. Re- 
ceiving a call to the First Congregational Church, Sharon, 
Conn., he accepted it and was installed in March, 19 10. In 
1912 he resigned this charge and moved to Cheshire, Conn., 
where he engaged in poultry raising. A slight stroke of 
paralysis in 1914 rendered it impossible to preach and some- 
what restricted his labors in other directions. He has a five 
acre plot on which he is raising small fruits, chickens and 
vegetables. 

Married September 22, 1882, to Mary E. Lamb, who died 
April 23, 1903 ; on February 6, 1907, at Greenwich, Conn., 
to Elizabeth Mudge Selchow, daughter of Elisha G. Sel- 
chow, merchant in New York City, and they have two 
children. 

"Si" wrote: "I cannot realize that next summer will be 
the fortieth anniversary of our graduation. How I shall 
want to go to Commencement ! I should like once more 
to greet as many '76 men as will be present, to feel once 
more how goodly a company I am one of, to give and to 
receive such cheer as I can to help for the last home stretch." 

HON. WILLIAM HICKOX WHITTLESEY, A.M., 
LL.B. 

Father, Joseph Hotchkiss Whittlesey, born August 22, 
1822, at Avon Springs, N. Y., graduate of Military Acad- 
emy, West Point, in 1844, married in 1853 at Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, Major Fifth U. S. Cavalry, died August i, 
1886. 

Mother, Katherine Knox Fauntleroy, born at Warrenton, 
Va., May 23, 1835, died in July, 1907, at Seattle, Wash. 

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Born at Winchester, Va., 
August 8, 1858. Prepared 
at Shenandoah Valley 
Academy, Winchester, Va., 
and under tutors, and en- 
tered Princeton in Septem- 
ber, 1872. Member of 
Whig Hall, roomed in 18 
North West and 13 North 
West. Won prize for Jun- 
ior Essay in Whig, member 
of Class Football Twenty, 
University Football Twen- 
ty, Class Baseball Nine, and 
$. K. *. After graduation 
studied law at Columbian 
University Law School, Washington, D. C, receiving his 
LL.B. in 1879, ^"d the same year his A.M. at Princeton. 

Since 1879 he has practiced law, engaged in mining, and 
held various offices, as justice of the peace, mining expert 
on the United States census in Colorado, 1880, Deputy Col- 
lector of Customs in Puget Sound District, Clerk of United 
States District Court in Washington State, Customs At- 
torney for the Northern Pacific Railroad, Jury Commission- 
er (1891) of the United States District and Circuit Courts 
for the State of Washington, Secretary of the Chamber 
of Commerce of Seattle, County Judge of Jefferson County, 
Washington, for two years (1890), Recorder and Assistant 
Prosecuting Attorney for the Kayak mining district, Alas- 
ka, Deputy United States Marshal of the Third Division, 
District of Alaska (1911), since June i, 1913, Assistant 
United States Attorney for the Third Judicial Division, 
Alaska, with headquarters for two years or more at Seward, 
now at Valdez. He was chosen a delegate from Alaska to 



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the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis in 1916 
but was unable to attend it. In 1877-8 he was a private in 
the General Service of the United States Army. 

Married April 29, 1885, at Seattle, Wash., to Lillian Bell, 
who died March 30, 1913, at Seattle, as the result of an 
automobile accident. They have had three sons, of whom 
the second, Cedric, was married at Seattle June 22, 1914, to 
Myrtle Belle Beach, and they have a daughter, Lillian, born 
May 17, 1915. 

Billy was east in the winter of 19 13, and in March of 
that year attended a dinner of the five classes '73-7 at the 
Princeton Club of New York. While in "the States" at 
that time he received from President Wilson the appoint- 
ment of Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Third Judicial 
District of Alaska. Again in 1917 he was in Washington 
and New York and in January attended the dinner of the 
Princeton Men of the 'Seventies and Before. 

The Court with which Billy is connected each year visits 
the settlements and towns of its part of Alaska instead of 
holding all its sittings at Seward or Valdez, and as most of 
its travels are by water, it is known as the "Floating Court." 
Billy's account of his experiences in 1913 may serve as a 
sample of his annual duty. He says : 'T was engaged on 
my trip with the 'Floating Court' from June 15, when I 
went westward by local steamer to prepare the way for the 
full court, which came by Revenue Cutter a month later. 
In that way I visited all the stopping places from Seward 
to Dillingham at the mouth of the Mushagak River, Bristol 
Bay, Bering Sea, some 1500 miles from Seward and less 
than 500 miles from Nome. You may slightly realize con- 
ditions when I tell you that there are in active operation 
twenty-three big salmon canneries, using more than thirty 
big sailing vessels, chiefly full-rigged ships, for carrying 
out the summer's pack, and some seventy-odd powerful 

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tugs and launches and sea-going steamers, together with 
fleets of fishing boats and flotillas of scows. 

"There are employed some 8000 men, the vast majority 
of whom are foreigners and not of the best types. There 
used to be a number of murders and other serious crimes, 
as many as eight murders in one short season a few years 
ago. Last year there was but one killing to the westward 
and that not at the canneries. The eft'ect of the coming of 
the 'Swimming Court' has been excellent. 

"Shortly after our return to Seward there came a brief 
term of court, then a regular term for three months at 
Valdez, which I attended, but after the criminal calendar 
was through I returned to Seward." 

REV. PROF. ROBERT DICK WILSON, A.M., Ph.D., 
D.D. 

Father, Andrew Wilkins Wilson. 

Mother, Anna Graham. 

Born, February 4, 1856. Prepared in the Indiana, Pa., 
public schools and came to Princeton in the fall of 1873. 
Member of Whig Hall, roomed in No. 7 North West. After 
graduating he entered the Allegheny Theological Seminary, 
took various prizes, devoted himself particularly to the 
study of languages, and was graduated in the spring of 1880. 
He was then engaged as Instructor in Hebrew in the same 
institution, later becoming Professor of Hebrew, Chaldee 
and Old Testament History there, and in addition Instruc- 
tor in Arabic and Syriac in the Chicago Summer School. 
In 1879 Princeton gave him the degree of A.M. and in 1886 
that of Ph.D. In 1900 he was elected to the professorship 
of Semitic Philology and Old Testament Criticism in the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, He has traveled and 
studied abroad extensively. In addition to writing fre- 
quently on Semitic Languages and Literature for the Pres- 

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byterian and Reformed Review and other magazines, he 
has written "Elements of Syriac Grammar," "Syriac Meth- 
od and Manual," "Notes on Hebrew Syntax," many articles 
for the New Biblical Encyclopaedia, and various lectures 
which have been delivered in many cities of the United 
States, and at some of the leading Conferences and Sum- 
mer Schools. He has been a delegate to, and read papers 
before, the International Congress of Orientalists at differ- 
ent times, and in 1907 he was a delegate of the Presbyterian 
Church to the General AssembHes of Scotland and Ireland. 
Married June 25, 1889, to Ella Conway Howard. They 
have had six children, one son and five daughters. The son, 
Philip Howard, graduated at Princeton in 191 1 with honors, 
went abroad to continue his studies, was taken ill and died 
in Zurich in the summer of 1913. 

SAMUEL GRAHAM WILSON, A.M., D.D. 

Less than a month after 
the Reunion of 1916 the 
newspapers one morning 
contained a brief cablegram 
stating that Dr. Samuel G. 
Wilson had died in Tabriz, 
Persia, and later news con- 
firmed the sad tidings, giv- 
ing typhoid fever as the 
cause and the date July 2. 
Dr. Wilson left America 
November 18, 1915, as 
head of a commission sent 
to Tiflis and Transcaucasia 
by the American Commit- 
tee for Armenian and Syr- 
ian Relief. He traveled by way of Norway, Archangel and 




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Petrograd, and in the latter city the American Ambassador 
aided him in obtaining the permission of the Russian Gov- 
ernment to estabhsh reHef work among the Armenians. Ar- 
riving in Tiflis at the end of December Dr. Wilson was re- 
ceived in audience by Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian 
commander-in-chief in the Caucasus, who expressed his 
good wishes for the success of the relief work, and similar 
expressions of hearty good will were received from civil 
and ecclesiastical dignitaries and from the press. 

Reports from Dr. Wilson to the Committee in New York 
told of the great numbers of Armenians that had been mas- 
sacred, of the extreme destitution of the survivors, mount- 
ing up in the hundreds of thousands, and of the efforts of 
the commission to provide food and clothing for as great a 
number as possible. The American Consul at Tiflis wrote 
to the New York Committee : "I have to congratulate you 
on sending out Dr. Wilson. His services as a buyer, not to 
mention the many other points, have been incalculable. 
Thanks to him and Mr. Hill purchases have been made in 
many cases at prices far below those paid by other organi- 
zations and the goods obtained were of better quality. You 
certainly are doing a great work." 

"To Dr. Wilson's commission with headquarters in Tiflis 
the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief 
sent in seven months $237,000, not including a remittance 
the latter part of June of about $50,000. It is quite prob- 
able that this latter sum reached the field by cablegram in 
time for Dr. Wilson to direct its expenditure, in which case 
about $287,000 from our committee alone was put at the 
disposal of the Relief Committee in Tiflis, of which Dr. 
Wilson was the most efficient and thoroughly trusted Chair- 
man. This is truly a wonderful record for the closing year 
of an eminently useful life." So wrote the assistant secre- 
tary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. 

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Having accomplished what he could. Dr. Wilson went on 
to Tabriz, the center of his life work as missionary, and 
received a most enthusiastic welcome from all classes and 
races, and banquets were given in his honor. It was, how- 
ever, noted by his friends and co-laborers that his usual 
vigor was lacking, the inclement weather and privations en- 
dured while purchasing and distributing supplies, the labor 
of keeping careful accounts of receipts and expenditures, 
the drain on his sympathies made by the sight of so much 
misery and suffering, and especially the nursing of the sick 
while himself weary and worn, undoubtedly weakened him 
and rendered him susceptible to the attack of disease. Soon 
after reaching Tabriz he fell ill with typhoid fever, and 
while the attack was not a severe one, his heart was not 
strong, his powers of resistance were impaired, and after an 
illness of twenty-four days, as a classmate also a missionary 
wrote, "he left the service and turmoil of earth for the ser- 
vice and peace of the better land, the first of the four '76 
men serving in Asia to be called home." 

At the funeral nearly the whole Armenian community 
was present, for they looked upon him as a martyr in his 
service to their nation. On July 15 a cable message, signed 
by the Armenian Prelate Archbishop, was received in New 
York saying: "All Armenian institutions are deeply 
grieved for the dead Rev. Wilson. Today we held great 
memorial service in main Armenian church vv'ith presence 
of two Bishops, high officials, clergymen and great mass of 
people representing institutions." In September resolutions 
were sent to Mrs. Wilson stating that "On September 29, 
1916, there was held in the Memorial School, at the call of 
a special committee, a service in memory of the Rev. Sam- 
uel G. Wilson, D.D. A large assembly of Armenians of 
both sexes gathered to pay a last tribute of respect to the 
late Dr. Wilson's memory. Many addresses were made re- 

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garding Dr. Wilson as a teacher, a minister, an author, an 
administrator, and as a humanitarian. The closing address 
was made by the Armenian Bishop, who also pronounced the 
benediction." 

The Rev. James L. Barton, D.D., Secretary of the Ameri- 
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, wrote 
to Rev. Robert E. Speer, D.D., of the Presbyterian Board, 
in part as follows on receiving word of Dr. Wilson's death : 
"Our hearts are bowed down in sorrow. What a loss he 
will be ! This is truly a case where a life is given for a 
cause. As Chairman of the Armenian and Syrian Relief 
Committee, I feel that we owe almost everything for the 
success of our work in Armenia and Russia to Dr. Wilson's 
splendid organizing ability and indomitable energy and tact. 
I cannot find words to express my own personal sense of loss 
and I sympathize with your Board to whom the loss will 
come as almost irreparable.'' 

Thus closed the earthly career of the youngest member 
of the Class of '76, after he had rendered to a sorely stricken 
race the greatest service that lay in his power, whereby 
many lives were saved from a wretched death through dis- 
ease and starvation. 

Sam Wilson was born at Indiana, Pa., February 11, 1858, 
entered Princeton as a sophomore in the fall of 1873, and 
graduated in June, 1876, at the age of eighteen years and 
four months. In college he won the affection and esteem of 
his mates, stood well in his studies, won a prize for Junior 
Essay in Whig Hall, took part in athletics and played on the 
class football team. From Princeton he went to Alleghany 
Theological Seminary and during the first year there re- 
ceived a prize of $100 for work in the Greek Language and 
for New Testament exercises and one of $100 for the best 
examination in the language and exegesis of the Gospel 
by John. In the spring of 1878 he was licensed to preach 



and in April, 1879, he was graduated from the Seminary. 
The same year Princeton gave him the degree of A.M. 
The degree of D.D. came to him in 1906 from the Western 
University of Pennsylvania and from Grove City College. 
The year 1879-80 was spent in post-graduate study in 
Princeton, at the college and in the Seminary. 

Offering himself as a missionary, he was accepted by the 
Presbyterian Board and Tabriz, Persia, was designated as 
his field. For it he sailed September 9, 1880, and arriving 
at his destination he began the study of Azerbizan Turkish, 
with the expectation that his principal work would be the 
translating and writing of books in "a language spoken 
from Armenia to the Yellow Sea, but which has not a single 
written word except through the missionaries' labors in the 
past." In pursuance of this plan Sam translated a church 
history and an arithmetic into the Azerbizan Turkish and a 
child's catechism into Ararat Armenian in the first years, 
besides teaching and superintending schools and making 
extensive gospel tours among the villages. 

A part of 1886 was spent on furlough in the United 
States and on his return to Persia the work of translation 
was resumed, together with the superintendency of the Boys' 
Training School, to whose more advanced classes he gave 
instruction, and the teaching of Theology and Church 
History in a Theological Department that was opened that 
year. A fellow missionary has spoken of "Sam's business 
ability as shown in his whole missionary work. Though an 
enthusiast with the highest ideals, he had what a missionary 
needs as much as these, the gift of wise judgment and com- 
mon sense. He could build cheaper than anybody else and 
had executive and organizing ability. He was mission 
treasurer all his life and put the business of the mission on 
a basis still continued. But he was a specialist as an educa- 
tor. He built up the small school he found, raised the 

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standard of education from the simple reading of the Koran 
by rote to an extended course in languages and sciences, 
and left the school with an enrollment of 280, half Persian 
and half Armenian. Its name is now The Memorial School. 
A Belgian official said of two of the graduates of the school 
that they were the only two honest men he knew in Persia. 
. . . Though he was occupied with business, teaching and 
writing, he never forgot his chief business was to preach 
Christ. He has been known to preach three sermons on a 
Sunday in three different languages, Turkish, Armenian and 
English. . . . The climax of his long years of service came 
in this last devoted eft'ort. Doubtless Dr. Wilson in his 
deep humility never realized what he had accomplished, but 
by the Master's standard he attained the real meaning of 
life, for 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' " 

The year 1904 found Sam again in America, and advant- 
age was taken of his vacation to prepare for publication his 
books ''Persian Life and Customs" and "Persia: Western 
Missions," which received high praise, the former especially, 
as it ran through several editions and was translated into 
German and Russian. While on that furlough he wrote a 
book for young people, "Mariam: A Romance of the Per- 
sian Missions," and during all his active life he contributed 
articles to the standard reviews, religious and secular, prin- 
cipally on subjects suggested by his studies, experiences and 
observations in Persia. 

His next visit to America was in 1912 and this was length- 
ened through a railroad wreck on Thanksgiving eve in which 
Sam suffered serious injury, and by the involvement of 
Persia in the war that broke out in 1914. Of the former he 
wrote, 'T found the revolution of a Persian empire was not 
as dangerous as the revolution of an American railroad 
coach." However during this extended furlough he was not 
idle, as frequent articles in magazines and other periodicals 

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attested, and a course of lectures in November, 1915, at the 
Western Theological Seminary on ''Modern Movements 
among Moslems," the latter appearing in book form a few- 
months later and meeting with deserved encomiums. An- 
other recent book was "Bahaism and Its Claims." A re- 
viewer says, "Few writers have possessed as full a knowl- 
edge combined with a style so clear and simple." 

It was on his return from this respite, to resume his 
duties as President of the Memorial Training and Theo- 
logical School, that he spent those devoted months in Cau- 
casia and arrived in Tabriz so exhausted by his labors that 
he had not sufficient vitaHty to combat the assaults of dis- 
ease. A recent American Ambassador to Turkey said last 
year: "The missionaries have a keen insight into the needs 
of the people. They go straight to the foundations and 
provide those intellectual, physical, moral and religious 
benefits upon which alone any true civilization can be built. 
They are brave, intelligent and unselfish men and women. 
As an American citizen I have been proud of them." May 
the life and work of Sam Wilson be an incentive to many 
to give themselves to the enlightenment and uplifting of 
those whom he served so long and so faithfully. 

Dr. Wilson was married September 16, 1886, to Annie 
Dwight Rhea, daughter of a pioneer missionary in Persia, 
and to them seven children were born, three of whom died 
in early childhood. Mrs. Wilson is now living in Pasadena, 
California, wdiere the younger children are at school. The 
oldest daughter received the degree of A.M. at Columbia 
University in June, 1915, and the same month the second 
daughter was graduated w-ith the degree of A.B. at Vassar 
College. H. L. H. 

HON. JOSEPH MILLIKEN WOODS, A.M., LL.B. 
Father, David Walker Woods, born in 1822, in Mifflin 




County, Pa., lawyer, died 
at Lewistown, Pa., Janu- 
ary 15, 1908. 

Mother, Margaretta Jane 
Milliken, born in Mifflin 
County in 1824, died at 
Lewistown in May, 1894. 

Born at New Berlin, Pa., 
January 5, 1854. Prepared 
at the Bellefonte Academy, 
Bellefonte, Pa., and enter- 
ed Princeton in September, 
1873. Member of Whig 
Hall, of University and 
Class baseball nines and 
football twenties. After 
graduation he studied law, was admitted to the bar and en- 
tered upon the practice of his profession at Lewistown, Pa. 
In 1879 he received the degree of A.M. from Princeton. 
In 1880 he was elected District Attorney of Mifflin County. 
In 1888 he was elected to the State Senate for a term of 
four years, and reelected in 1892. In October, 1903, the 
Governor appointed him President Judge of the Twentieth 
Judicial District of Pennsylvania to fill an unexpired term. 
In 1904 he was nominated by the Republican party for the 
same office and was elected unanimously, the Democrats 
making no nomination. His term expired January i, 1915, 
when he resumed the practice of law at Lewistown. 

Married at Hackettstown, N. J., June 2, 1881, to Sarah 
E. Johnson, daughter of William L. Johnson, merchant. 
They have seven children, three of whom are married, and 
four grandchildren. James, an officer in the U. S. Navy, 
was married May 19, 1908, to Dorothy Day, and they have 
three children: Sterrett, born October i, 1909, James S., Jr., 



October 24, 191 1, and Samuel H., March 20, 1913. Marga- 
retta married Herbert S. Kent April 19, 1914, and they have 
a daughter, Sarah E., born April 19, 1914. William, Prince- 
ton '11, was married to Myrtle Sebrell of Norfolk, Va., 
November 5, 1914. 

"Jimmie" is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church and 
Clerk of Session, also Superintendent of the Sunday School. 
His oldest daughter is a missionary in China, at home on 
furlough in 191 7. 




WARREN WOODWARD, A.M., LL.B. Died December 
3, 1881. [See Record No. IV, page 131.] 

REV. WILLIAM HOPPOCK WOOLVERTON, A.M., 
D.D. 

Father, Maurice Wool- 
verton, born February 21, 
1827, at Stockton, N. J., 
farmer, died at Stockton 
February 6, 1904. 

Mother, Caroline M. 
Hoppock, born at Lambert- 
ville, Pa., July i, 1823, died 
at Stockton, October 10, 
1909. 

Born January 25, 1855, at 
Stockton, N. J. Prepared 
at Lawrenceville School, 
N. J., and entered Prince- 
ton in September, 1872. 
Member of CHosophic So- 
ciety, room 44 North College. Standing at graduation 
twenty-fifth, but was thirteenth in Senior year. Taught for 
a year after graduation at Bellefonte Academy, Pa., then 




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entered Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated in 
1880. Received the degree of A.M. from Princeton in 
1879, and D.D. from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 
He was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Pocomoke, 
Md., from 1881 to 1886, of the Second Presbyterian Church 
of Trenton, N. J., 1886 to 1891. In 1891-2 he traveled in 
Europe, returned to the pastorate over the Presbyterian 
Church of Bedford, Pa., 1892 to 1895, and was pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church at Boonton, N. J., from 1895 to 
1901. Since then he has lived on his farm "Wolverstone" 
at Stockton and preaches occasionally. He was Moderator 
of the Presbytery of New Castle, of that of Morris and 
Orange, and of that of New Brunswick, N. J. His highest 
position in civic life was service on two Grand Juries. 

Married at Pocomoke City, Md., May 6, 1884, to Minnie 
Primrose Dickinson, daughter of William S. Dickinson, 
merchant. They have two daughters. 

In June, 191 5, "Billy" preached the Baccalaureate ser- 
mon to the graduating class at the Naval Academy, An- 
napolis. 

He writes : 'T am only a hybrid-hyphenated farmer- 
preacher, a fifth degree granger, a member of the County 
Committee of our rural Y. M. C. A. and President of the 
Old Cemetery Association, in the grounds of which the 
dust of seven generations of ancestors is commmgled. I am 
not one of 'the great or near-great" and have no exploits of 
my own to chronicle. Albeit I am the member of a great 
Class. And those members of the body that seem to be 
more feeble are necessary. I take ofT my hat to Chambers 
and Fulton and Lowrie and Sam Wilson and the others, who 
are in the forefront of the far-flung battle line. I give my 
hand to those who have hit the hard trail, and are climbing 
the steep ascent through peril, toil and pain. Bless them! 
Bless us all !" 

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 



HOWARD RUSSELL BUTLER, LL.B., N.A. 

Father, William Allen 
Butler, born at Albany, N. 
Y., in 1825, married in 
New York City March 21, 
1850, lawyer, Butler, Still- 
man and Hubbard, LL.D. 
from New York Univer- 
sity, died at Yonkers, N. 
Y., September 9, 1902. 

Mother, Mary Russell 
Marshall, born in New 
York November 30, 1828, 
still living at Yonkers, N. 
Y. 

Born in New York City 
March 3, 1856. Studied at 
Yonkers School No. 6, Montgomery R. Hooper's private 
school and under tutors, and entered the John C. Green 
School of Science in 1873. Standing at graduation — first in 
the Scientific School group, took chemistry prize of $50. 
Member of the Princeton Scientific Society, roomed in 18 
South East. 

He was Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton 
1876-7, Electrician and Secretary in the Gold and Stock 
Telegraph Company 1877-9, graduated at Columbia Law 
School in 1881, practiced law in its relation to electrical 
patents in the firm of Pope, Edgecombe and Butler until 




20s 



1884, abandoned law practice for Art January i, 1884, 
studied art in the Art Students' League, New York, and 
in the ateliers of Paris under Dagnan-Bouveret, Roll and 
Gervex. Visited Mexico and studied there under Frederick 
E. Church. He is now a painter of marines and portraits, 
and has taken the following awards : Honorable Mention, 
Paris Salon, 1886; Medals, Paris, 1889 and 1900; Temple 
Silver Medal, Pennsylvania Academy, 1888; Atlanta Expo- 
sition, 1895 ; Buffalo Exposition, 1901 ; St. Louis Exposi- 
tion, 1904; California, 1915. Elected to the Society of 
American Artists in 1889, the Architectural League of 
New York in 1890, the New York Water Color Club in 
1893, and the National Academy of Design in 1898. 

President of the American Fine Arts Society from 1889 
to 1905, President of Carnegie Music Hall 1896 to 1905, 
Vice-President of the National Academy of Design since 
191 5, and President of the National Academy Association 
since 1916. 

Married in New York City, November 25, 1890, to Vir- 
ginia Hays, daughter of William J. Hays, artist, A. N. A. 
They have one child living, Howard Russell, Jr., who will 
enter the class of 1920 for the degree of B.S. 

Howard is a member of the Century, Lotos, National 
Arts, University and Princeton Clubs of New York and of 
the Nassau Club of Princeton. 

In November, 1916, he was elected to membership in the 
art section of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is 
Vice-President of the Nassau Club. In December, 1916, 
the National Academy announced the award to Howard 
Russell Butler of "the Carnegie Prize of $500 for the most 
meritorious oil painting in the exhibition by an American 
artist, portraits only excepted, for the painting 'Maine 
Cliflfs in Moonlight.' " It has been spoken of as "perhaps 
the best marine painted by an American artist." 

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In addition to the work for Princeton by which How- 
ard, with Wm. Allen and others, secured Carnegie Lake, he 
has been engaged very busily upon another project which 
he here describes : 

"Princeton — May 25, 191 7. 

"During the last five years and more I have lived at 
Princeton. It was at our thirty-fifth Reunion dinner that 
word was brought to me of a house to let. I left the table, 
went out and hired it. I had been so much in Princeton, at 
work on the lake and other undertakings, and had become 
so attached to the place that it was an easy matter to change 
my home from New York to this enchanting spot. I have 
now purchased a residence on the corner of Library Place 
and Boudinot Street and added a studio and exhibition 
room and hope and expect to end my days here. 

"The subject which has occupied me most in the past five 
years has been the placing of the Princeton Battle Monu- 
ment. As this will interest all lovers of Princeton I will 
give a short history of it. 

"It is many years since the project was started. Prof. 
Cameron, President Cleveland and many others were deeply 
interested in it. Appropriations were made by the United 
States and the State of New Jersey aggregating $60,000 
and the Borough of Princeton subscribed about $22,000 
more for the purchase of the hardware store and three 
small houses at the junction of Stockton and Mercer Streets. 

"Frederick MacMonnies was chosen sculptor and he sub- 
mitted several designs, one of which — after a long delay — 
was finally accepted. It is to be a bas-relief in stone of a 
group representing Washington on horseback advancing 
with his troops and led by a symbolic figure of Liberty. 
There is to be a handsome stone background — the architec- 
tural features of which have been designed by Thomas 
Hastings. Dean West has written a fine inscription, which 

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will appear on the rear face of the monument. The front 
face will have only the words 'Princeton, January 3, 1777.' 

"The great question, in the solution of which I have taken 
an active part, has been just where to place it. In 1912 I 
conceived the idea of acquiring additional properties which, 
with those already obtained, could be made into a small 
park as a site for the monument. I was appointed by the 
Borough to design this park and superintend its construc- 
tion. I also conducted a campaign to raise funds for it. 

"About one hundred responses were received and $30,000 
taken in. It is an interesting fact that about $20,000 came 
from alumni living away from Princeton. Gifts of land 
were also made by the Nassau Club and M. Taylor Pyne. 
This fund enabled me to remove seven unsightly buildings, 
to push back Joseph Priest's store and lay out the park 
which now speaks for itself. 

"But the sculptor and architect, not wishing to make the 
scale of the monument small enough to agree with the lines 
of the park, proposed to the Monument Commission to buy 
a part of the lawn in front of Princeton Inn, which, owing 
to the failure of the Princeton Inn Company was about to 
come on the market as building lots. 

"I took the stand, backed by Mr. Pyne and others, that 
the monument should not be placed at any point on the 
Inn lawn unless the entire lawn was acquired, as otherwise 
buildings would soon appear which would destroy the effect 
of the monument. 

"We are now glad to report that another fund ($50,000) 
has been raised and the whole lawn, 524 feet long, pur- 
chased and deeded to the State. The site for the monu- 
ment was finally determined last week. It is 400 feet back 
from Bayard Lane and in the continued axis of Nassau 
Street. The lawn will be laid out with paths and will af- 
ford a fine vista at the head of Nassau Street with the 
monument as its central feature. 

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"Thus the contest over the site of the monument has re- 
sulted in great improvements to Princeton. It has secured 
a permanent open space from the new Dining Halls all the 
way to the Morven line, more than one thousand feet. The 
value of the gifts in money and lands is about $130,000. 

"The erection of the monument will begin, I confidently 
believe, this year. It should take about a year to complete 
it, but I am making no promises. 

"Howard Russell Butler." 

JOHN GILES CECIL, M.D. 

The death of few other 
men in Louisville, Ky., 
could have caused such 
widespread grief as that of 
Dr. John G. Cecil, the be- 
loved physician. He was ..^ 
born at Monticello, Wayne W^ 
County, Ky., November 20, 
1855, in a home and of an 
ancestry which gave him 
"a vantage-ground for 
nobleness." Four years 
later the family moved to 
Mercer county, near Har- 
rodsburg, where there grew 
up three sons and two 

daughters, all of whom brought honor to the family name, 
and of whom one is an eminent minister and ex-Moderator 
of the Southern Presbyterian Church. 

Young John was one of the most popular boys that ever 
lived in Mercer county. His abounding vitality and humor, 
the strength and purity and sweetness of his nature won 
the admiring affection of both young and old. From the 

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Harrodsburg public school he went to Princeton University, 
where he was graduated, when not yet twenty-one years of 
age, with the now famous Class of '76. He studied medicine 
at the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville. In conse- 
quence of his high standing as a student he was appointed 
upon graduation to the position of interne in the Louisville 
City Hospital. After a few years of medical practice he 
went to Europe and pursued his professional studies in the 
great medical centers of London, Berlin and Vienna. Re- 
turning to Louisville he resumed the active practice of 
medicine, which he continued until laid aside by ill-health a 
few months before the final attack of heart trouble which 
terminated his earthly life on December 12, 19 13, at the age 
of fifty-eight. 

For twenty-five years he had been recognized as one of 
the very foremost physicians in Louisville. In addition to 
a large individual practice, he had a remarkable reputation 
and popularity as a consulting physician, his services being 
in frequent demand not only in Louisville but throughout 
Kentucky and neighboring States. In professional circles 
he was known as "the doctor of doctors" on account of the 
large number of doctors of whom he was the family physi- 
cian, an incidental but convincing proof not only of his 
medical skill but of the fact that he lived by the strictest 
code of professional ethics and by the highest rule of per- 
sonal conduct. For nearly thirty years he was associated 
with the Medical Department of the University of Louis- 
ville and he was a potent factor in the consolidation five 
years ago of the four medical schools of Louisville into 
one, serving after the merger on the Executive Committee 
of the faculty and trustees. Through his long service as 
medical professor he was not only recognized as a highly 
capable and successful teacher, but he won in a remarkable 
degree the personal love of the students, hundreds of whom, 



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however widely scattered after graduation, continued to 
look to him for help and guidance. 

The many honors that came to him were accepted by him 
as opportunities for service. As head of the Kentucky As- 
sociation of Princeton Clubs, as president of the Kentucky 
Medical Association, as director and later as president of 
the Louisville Young Men's Christian Association, and as 
Ruling Elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, he faith- 
fully served his Alma Mater, his city, his State, and his 
Church. 

In 1882 he was most happily married to Misg Elizabeth 
Robinson, daughter of the famous theologian, ecclesiastic, 
and preacher. Dr. Stuart Robinson. The union was blessed 
with two sons, Stuart R. and Russell H. Cecil, of Louis- 
ville ; and two daughters, Mary, now Mrs. J. VanDyke Nor- 
man, of Louisville, and Martha, who was married thirteen 
months ago to Mr. J. Morrison Wilson, of Louisville, and 
at once sailed with him to China, both becoming members 
of the Southern Presbyterian Mission at Hangchow. It 
was a joy to Dr. Cecil to receive a cablegram three weeks 
before his death announcing the arrival of a little grand- 
daughter in the far-away land of Sinim, making the num- 
ber of his living grandchildren four, two boys and two girls. 

It is impossible for one who has known and loved Dr. 
Cecil to speak of him save in terms that to others might 
possibly seem extravagant. He was one of the strongest, 
noblest, tenderest, most genial and lovable men that I have 
ever known. 

"His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, 'This was a man.' " 

As his form and face were strong, square, ample, every 
feature normal, every word and movement natural and di- 
rect, so there was something elemental and massive about 



his integrity, his simplicity, his sanity, his poise, his de- 
pendableness. 

"He stood foursquare to ah the winds that blew." 
The strength and wholesomeness of his nature found ex- 
pression in a genial humor that was hardly ever absent 
from his face and conversation and that invested both with 
a rare charm. \\'hen he entered a sick room, his very pres- 
ence brought hope and health. 

But the biggest thing about him, as about the Great Physi- 
cian in whose steps he followed, was his heart. That was 
the source of his patience, his tact, his thoughtfulness, his 
rare capacity for friendship, his unfailing sympathy and 
helpfulness, the contagion of strength and cheer that he 
carried with him as an atmosphere. 

Egbert W. Smith, in The Christian Observer. 



Dr. Cecil was the son of Russell Howe Cecil and Lucy 
Ann Phillip, the former born in October, 1815, in Pulaski 
County, Va., the latter at Monticello, Ky., in January, 1828. 
He was prepared for college at the McAfee Academy, Mc- 
Afee, Ky., and entered the School of Science at Princeton 
in 1873, graduating in 1876. During his long professional 
career in Louisville, Ky., he held many positions of honor 
and influence, among them Clinical Lecturer in Gynaecology, 
Adjunct Professor of Obstetries in the University of Louis- 
ville, Professor of Obstetrics in the Kentucky School of 
Medicine, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medi- 
cine and Clinical Medicine in the Louisville Medical Col- 
lege, Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pub- 
lic Hygiene in the University of Louisville, President of 
the Kentucky State Medical Society, President of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, and Visiting Physician to dif- 
ferent hospitals and homes. 

The tributes rendered to Dr. Cecil's worth and services 
were many and touching. The Board of Directors of the 



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Masonic \\'idows' and Orphans' Home in their resolutions 
stated: "Of the many to whom a debt of obHgation must be 
acknowledged, scarcely any can be mentioned who have 
surpassed in faithful, self-sacrificing service to greater ex- 
tent than Dr. John G. Cecil. . . . One of the most beloved 
of our people of any of the medical stafif, winning his way 
to the alTection of all by his sweetness of spirit and most 
courteous attention." 

The Board of Managers of the Norton Memorial Infir- 
mary testify: ''He was kindly and courteous, generous and 
sympathetic and ever ready to help those who needed him 
and we feel that his place will be hard to fill in the work 
of this institution." 

The Faculty of the University of Louisville say of Dr. 
Cecil : "He was an erudite and efficient instructor and 
served the University with fidelity as teacher and member 
of the Executive Committee of the medical faculty. He was 
a man of high ideals, of strict integrity, and gave his in- 
fluence and efforts to advance the standard of medical 
teaching and promote the welfare of the University. As 
an associate he was courteous, efficient and the soul of 
honor." 

The Evening Post of Louisville said editorially : "Dr. 
Cecil lived by the strictest code of professional ethics as 
well as the highest rule of personal conduct. He knew no 
difference between the man, the citizen and the physician ; 
there was nothing one could do that the other did not coun- 
tenance. The practice of medicine was to him something 
more than a profession, it was a form of service to the 
community. . . . His career here is ended, but his influ- 
ence is with us still, and his memory will be an inspiration 
to hundreds educated under his influence." 

The Directors of another Home say in part : "Dr. Cecil 
was prominent by his unfailing solicitude and warm sym- 

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pathy. His beautiful nature endeared him to all at the 
Home ; his tenderness, patience and skill and his services 
were always tendered freely and gladly. Such devotion can 
never be forgotten and his memory is held sacred in the 
Home forever. 

He came an angel to our door, 

Nor stayed for wealth or high position, 
But ministered unto the poor 

This follower of 'the Great Physician.' 
He had no thought for warring creeds, 

But served his Master night and day, 
So now he lives in lovely deeds 

That sprang like flowers about his way.'" 

H. L.H. 

FRANK DAVENPORT COOK. Died December, 1887. 
[See Record No. V, page 102.] 

JOHN AYCRIGG HEGEMAN, M.D. Died September 
23, 1908. [See Record No. IX, page 168.] 

ROBERT HASELL MC KOY, LL.B. Died October 29, 
1901. [See Record No. IX, page 175.] 
Of Robert's five children, one died in 1908. Three of the 
others are married, Mary to George B. Brooks, August 29, 
1902 ; Louis to Eloise M. Erwin, August 11, 1914, and Adair 
to Katie Grainger, April, 19 15. There are two grandchil- 
dren, Nida McKoy Brooks and Adair Morey McKoy, Jr., 
the latter born in April, 1916. 

WILLIAM BERRY MC KOY, LL.B. 

Father, William Henry McKoy, born at Clinton, N. C, 
August II. 1827, married in Wilmington, N. C, February 

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4, 1852, merchant, W. H. 
McKoy & Co., died in Wil- 
mington July 28, 1858. 

Mother, Francenia Eliza 
Berry, born in Richmond, 
Va., December 24, 1833, 
died in Wilmington April 
25, 1889. 

Born in Wilmington, N. 

C, December 24, 1852. 
Prepared at the Cape Fear 
Military Academy, Wil- 
mington, and entered 
Princeton in September, 
1873. Member of the 
Princeton Southern Asso- 
ciation and Clio Hall, roomed in 16 South East. After 
graduation he attended Law School under George V. 
Strong, of Raleigh, N. C, was licensed to practice law in 
1879, sworn in as a member of the bar in the same year by 
his uncle. Judge Allmund A. McKoy, and since then has 
practiced law in Wilmington. 

Married in Wilmington December 15, 1886, to Katherine 
Bacon, daughter of Henry Bacon, C.E. They have five 
children, none of whom is married. One son is a civil engi- 
neer, another is working at Marble, Col., for the company 
furnishing marble for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 

D. C, the architect of which is his uncle, Mrs. McKoy's 
brother, Henry Bacon of New York. 

W. B. is deeply interested in the early history of his State, 
and contributes frequent articles on this and germane sub- 
jects to the magazines and newspapers. He styles himself 
"the antiquarian" and is especially interested in the ab- 
stract of titles and has a remarkable collection of genealogi- 



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cal notes and other historical information taken from court 
records and collected in various ways. A recent article in 
a historical magazine is entitled "Incidents in the Early Set- 
tlement of the Cape Fear," and shows wide reading and 
much patient research. 

W. B. is prominent in Masonry and has been Grand 
Master of Masons in North Carolina. 

He writes September 21, 1917: "My two boys Henry B. 
and Francis K. are now at Camp Sevier, near Greenville, 
S. C, in the 105th Regiment, Engineer Corps. Wliliam A., 
my oldest son is at Chattanooga, Tenn., a civil engineer for 
the I. C. C. for the Government. He married Mary Eliza- 
beth Dobson of Augusta, Ga., August 7, 1916, and they have 
a son, William Ancrum, Jr. 



CHARLES ROBINSON SMITH, while on his way to 

the Pacific Coast in March, 
1916, was taken ill on the 
train near Spokane, Wash- 
ington. The attack being 
very serious Mrs. Smith 
was summoned, went to 
Spokane, and brought 
Charlie to their New York 
residence. Here he was 
placed under the best pos- 
sible medical care and for 
a time improved very de- 
cidedly. The exact nature 
of the ailment was not 
known, but it was a cere- 
bral disturbance of some 
kind, probably a hemorrhage. Later the illness increased 
and death followed on May 12, 1916, two months after the 




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first attack. Funeral services were held at the Smith home 
at Neenah, Wis., on May i6. 

The son of Elisha D. Smith and Julia A. Mowry, Charlie 
was born at Menasha, Wis., January 24, 1855. Completing 
his preparation for college at the Edwards Place School, at 
Stockbridge, Mass., conducted in the former residence of 
Rev. Jonathan Edwards, he entered the John C. Green 
School of Science in 1873 and graduated in 1876, a Bache- 
lor of Science. 

After graduation he returned to Menasha and going into 
the business founded and conducted by his father, that of 
the Menasha Wooden Ware Company, he decided to manu- 
facture broom handles, built a small factory, a one story 
frame building, and spent the winter following in the woods 
buying timber for his new plant. The enterprise growing, 
after three years he enlarged it to make room for the manu- 
facture of barrels. This was operated by water power. 
The new business increasing rapidly, in 1890 Mr. Smith 
found it necessary to build a big brick factory and put in 
steam power. At the death of his father in 1899, Charlie, 
who had long been treasurer and a prominent stockholder 
of the Wooden Ware Company, was elected President, and 
held that office until his death, by wise management extend- 
ing the interests of that great institution until it comprised 
large investments in some of the best timber and land com- 
panies of the Far West and Canada. In all these he rep- 
resented the investment of the Wooden Ware Company on 
the official boards and was not an individual investor. 

The Menasha paper says "Charles R. Smith may rightly 
be said to have been one of the leading business men of 
Wisconsin. His contribution to the industrial life and de- 
velopment of Menasha will never be estimated. In all his 
affairs he was exacting and never spared himself in the 
conduct of any of them. He was more generous than any 

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one gave him credit for because he did not herald his bene- 
factions." And The Nezv York Times speaks of the Mena- 
sha Wooden Ware Company as "the largest of its kind in 
the world." 

Besides holding office in these enterprises he was Presi- 
dent of the First National Bank from 1890, President of 
the Milwaukee Northern Railroad Company, a trustee of 
Beloit College, to which he had contributed largely, Presi- 
dent of Sunny View Sanatorium, the Winnebago home for 
chronic sufferers from tuberculosis. For a time he was city 
superintendent of schools in Menasha, and he was inter- 
ested in educational institutions connected with mission en- 
terprises in China. 

Charlie was married to Jennie W. Mathewson, of Me- 
nasha, October 2, 1889, and to them were born two sons 
(Princeton '16) and a daughter. In September, 1895, Mrs. 
Smith died. One of the sons, Mowry, was married April 
II, 1917, to Katharine Lawton, daughter of Mr. Anson 
Jesse Ives, at Savannah, Ga. June 6, 1900 Charlie was 
married to Isabel Bacon Rogers, who still survives. 

As a '76 man Charlie will always be remembered as one 
of the most consistent in returning to the Reunions and to 
Princeton Commencements. There w^ere but few Com- 
mencements since graduation at which he was not present, 
and nothing but very important business engagements or 
illness in his family prevented his coming, even from parts 
of the country much farther from Princeton than his home. 
His genial company and loyal support of all the activities 
of '76 will be greatly missed at all future gatherings. Ow- 
ing to his modesty and retiring disposition only the officers 
of the Class knew to what extent we were indebted to 
Charlie Smith for the success of our Reunions, and at our 
last meeting his absence was noted again and again by all 
present with deepest regret and sorrow. As a classmate 

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wrote: "Charlie was whole-souled. He was always de- 
voted to Princeton and to his Class. You always knew 
where to find him and that you could count on him. I once 
wanted help in a good cause for Princeton Borough and let 
him know of it. He wired back a splendid gift. I think of 
him as sincere, friendly and generous. Would that he were 
with us still." H. L. H. 

WILLIAM PAXTON STEVENSON 

Father, John McPherson Stevenson, born December 6, 
1818, in Bedford County, Pa., commission merchant, mar- 
ried at Gettysburg, Pa., May 9, 1854, died January 27, 1904, 
at Schenectady, N. Y. 

Mother, Margaretta E. Paxton, born near Gettysburg, Pa., 
November 29, 1819, died July 15, 1895, at Lake George, 
N. Y. 

Born in Baltimore, Md., February 24, 1855. Prepared at 
Chambersburg Academy, Pa., and entered Princeton in Sep- 
tember, 1873. Since graduation he has been engaged in 
business and has been an officer and director in quite a 
number of different companies of various kinds. 

Married September 29, 1881, to Marianne W. Woods, 
daughter of David Walker Woods, lawyer, of Lewistown, 
Pa. They have two children, a son Princeton '05 and a 
daughter. The former is married and has two children, 
Walker W., Jr., and Margaretta. 

Will is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Society 
of Colonial Wars, Down Town Association of New York 
City, National Arts Club, Lake George Club, etc. 



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NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

ACADEMIC 

REV. THOMAS CUMMING BEATTIE died of hemor- 
rhage of the brain at his home in Pasadena, Cal., September 
22, 1913. He had been quite well and very busy during the 
summer, and it is possible that overwork together with a 
season of intense heat may have brought on his last illness. 

Beattie was born at Scotchtown, N. Y., July 23, 1854, the 
son of Rev. David Beattie, a native of St. Andrews, N. Y., 
and Isabella Gumming, of New York City. At the age of 
fourteen he made public confession of his faith in the Pres- 
byterian Church of Scotchtown. His preparation for col- 
lege was made at the Wallkill Academy, Middletown, N. Y., 
and he entered Princeton in 1872. Ill health compelled his 
withdrawal for a time, and on his return he jomed the class 
of '78 and was graduated with them. The next year he 
spent at home preparing a brother for college, then entered 
Union Theological Seminary, and after a year went to 
Princeton Seminary and graduated in 1882. 

In June, 1882, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church of Chester, N. Y. After six years he went to Colo- 
rado for his health, and was stated supply of a church at 
Las Animas from July, 1880, to September, 1890, when he 
went to Albuquerque, N. M., as pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church. In each of these places he served as Moderator of 
Presbyter}'. 

In 1903 Beattie went to Pasadena, Gal., and there was 
associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church until 1908. 
After that, remaining in Pasadena, he preached occasionally, 

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also engaged to some extent in the oil business and in solicit- 
ing life insurance. 

He was married July 28, 1891, at Chester, N. Y., to Ruby 
Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Miller, who with one 
daughter, Ruth Priscilla, survives him. 

Classmates will well remember Beattie's tall, well-built 
figure, his gentle ways, his ability in his studies. In recent 
years, with gray hair and' full white beard he was an un- 
usually handsome man. His mental qualifications are in- 
dicated by the fact that at graduation from Princeton Semi- 
nary he was one of four speakers at the Commencement 
exercises. One who was intimately acquainted with him 
says, "He was one of the best men I ever knew." 

H. L. H. 

CHARLES FROOME BRAGG. Died February 22, 1893. 
[See Record No. VI, page iii.] 

JOHN KERFOOT BRYDEN. Died June 5, 1907. [See 
Record No. IX, page 181.] 

JOHN CONGER 
No report. 

BERNARD CHARLES CUVELLIER. Died May 8, 1905. 
[See Record No. VIII, page 121.] 

AUGUSTUS HENCHEMAN DELLICKER, LL.B., af- 
ter an illness of several months from a growth in the throat 
which caused great suffering and finally closed so as to pre- 
vent swallowing, died at his home in Hackettstown, N. J., 
on Tuesday, October 12, 191 5. Early in the summer he 
went to the Flower Hospital in New York for treatment, 
but an operation was deemed inadvisable and he returned 
home unimproved in health. 



"Gus" was born at Schooleys jNIountain, near Hacketts- 
town, October 4, 185 1, the oldest son of William Dellicker 
and Caroline Bruner, his wife. Preparing for college at 
neighboring schools and at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., he entered Princeton in September, 1872, and left in 
sophomore year. Returning to Hackettstown he studied 
law in the office of Col. C. H. Valentine, was admitted to 
the bar in February, 1879, and followed this profession dur- 
ing the remainder of his life. He was also a civil engineer 
and frequently acted as town surveyor. He was in addition 
a member of the Common Council and of the Board of 
Education. 

He was a Master Mason and Past Master of Independ- 
ence Lodge, F. and A. M. 

"Gus'" was married in 1879 and is survived by his wid- 
ow and a daughter, also a brother and a sister. H. L. H. 

JAMES SEARS DICKERSON. Died February 26, 1876. 
[See Record No. IV, page 141.] 

EDWARD STILES ELY, A.B. 

Father, Z. Stiles Ely, born at Lyme, Conn., November 7, 
1819, married in Chicago January 22, 1848, coffee importer, 
died at Lyme October 4, 1902. 

Mother, Sarah Hammond Duncan, born at Massilon, 
Ohio, October 22, 1825, died in New York City January i, 
1881. 

Born in Chicago November 7, 1853. Prepared at Phillips 
Academy, Andover, Mass., entered Princeton in September, 
1872, and left in June, 1873. Graduated at Yale in 1876 
with the degree A.B. He was engaged in mercantile oc- 
cupations until 1908, then spent a considerable time in travel- 
ing abroad and in the United States. At present he is de- 
voting himself to agriculture, which has included ranching 

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in Southern California and working his two farms in Con- 
necticut. 

Married at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., May 27, 1880, to 
Emma Durrie Pahner, daughter of Albert Pahiier. They 
have had four children, Palmer Stiles, Richmond Duncan, 
Daphne and Ernest Stiles. The first died in 1915. Daphne 
was married September 16, 1913, to Arthur Worthington 
Bunnel. 

"May 16, 1916. 
"My dear Harrison : 

"It was very pleasant to me to revive memories of Prince- 
ton '76 and I thank you for your letter of May 6th and the 
invitation to attend the Class Reunion, which I would be glad 
to accept if circumstances permitted. I have an additional 
tie to Princeton in Professor Richardson, my brother-in- 
law, who is Librarian. 

"Rest assured that my former classmates in '76 hold a 
high place in my heart and that I live in hopes of meeting 
them on some future occasion. Again thanking you for your 
courtesy, I am, 

"Very truly yours, 

"E. S. Ely.'' 

REV. CHARLES PAGE EMERSON. Died January 19, 
1887. [See Record No. V, page III.] 

CECIL CLEAIENT FULTON 

Father, James Alexander Fulton, born at Apollo, Arm- 
strong County, Pa., November 11, 1822, married July 4, 
1848, at Indiana, Pa., attorney-at-law, died at Dover, Del., 
February 28, 1895. 

Mother, Mary Ann Rice, born at Indiana, Pa., April 19, 
1831, died at Dover, Del., April 11, 191 1. 

Born at Kittanning, Pa., January 27, 1855. Prepared at 

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the Hudson River Institute, 
Claverack, N. Y., entered 
Princeton in September, 
1872, and left in May, 1874. 
Roomed in 3 South West. 
Since leaving college he has 
been in the insurance busi- 
ness and for many years 
has been connected with the 
Kent County Mutual Insur- 
ance Company. For sever- 
al years he was a member 
of a Street and Sewer Com- 
mission of five men, ap- 
pointed to lay street pave- 
ments in Dover, and served 
as secretary and treasurer of the Commission. 

Married October 13, 1881, at Dover, Del, to Anna Wat- 
son Meredith, daughter of Whitely William Meredith, a 
Baptist clergyman. They have three children, a daughter 
and two sons. 




WILLIAM WALKER GREEN, A.B., Yale 78, LL.B. 

No report. 

EDWARD PACKARD HOLDEN 

Father, James Cotton Holden, born in Nev/ York City 
December 15, 1824, married at Spencer, Mass., August 15, 
1850, died at Madison, N. J., January 13, 1908. 

Mother, Sarah Daniels Packard, born at Spencer, Mass., 
October 29, 1827, died at Madison, January 13, 1907. 

Born in New York City January 19, 1855. Prepared at 
Lyon's Collegiate Institute, New York City, and entered 
Princeton in September, 1872, leaving in the following De- 



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cember on account of trouble with his eyes. Member of 
Whig Hall, roomed in town. 

He went into business on leaving college and is now 
cashier of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
York. For a time he was President of the First National 
Bank of Madison, N. J. For ten years he was President of 
the Madison Board of Education and for twelve years a 
member of the Board of Health. He is a Trustee of the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, Elder in the Presbyterian 
Church and Superintendent of the Sunday school, and an 
officer in local, state and army Y. M. C. A. 

Member of the Nassau Club of Princeton, Union League 
of New York, Pacific Club of Nantucket, Madison Golf 
Club and of most of the patriotic orders. 

Married at Madison, N. J., March 5, 1879, to Ella Cebra 
Webb, daughter of James Augustus Webb. They have four 
children ; Margaretta, Vassar '03, married Rev. Minot C. 
Morgan, Princeton '96, May 11, 191 1; Eleanor, Barnard 
'06; Edward P., Jr., Princeton '06, married Helen Hum- 
bert February 16, 1916; and Elizabeth, Vassar '09, mar- 
ried Roderick A. Dorman, Princeton '06, June i, 1910. 
There is one grandchild, Minot Canfield Morgan, Jr., born 
June 30, 1913. 

In the winter and spring of 1916 Ed was seriously ill with 
neuritis, but was able to attend the Reunion in June. 

HARRY BACKUS KAUFMAN. Died December 27, 1882. 
[See Record No. IV, page 147.] 

ALLEN TAYLOR KYLE. Died April 5, 1889. [See 
Record No. V, page 113.] 

REV. WASHINGTON ROBERT LAIRD, Ph.D. 

Father, Robert W. Laird, born at Barnet, Vt., September 
2, 1830. 

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Mother, Harriet M. An- 
gier, born at Lexington, 
Mass., August 5, 1832. 

Born at Danville, Vt., 
April 22, 1855. Prepared 
at Mclndoes Falls Acad- 
emy, Vt., and entered 
Princeton in the fall of 
1873 in the sophomore 
class, leaving before June, 
1874. In 1876 he grad- 
uated from Geneva Col- 
lege, Ohio, and entered the 
Alleghany Theological 
Seminary. In 1878 he or- 
ganized a Presbyterian 
church at St. Johnsbury, Vt.. and was its pastor until 1888, 
when he was called to New Castle, Pa., to a Reformed 
Presbyterian church. From New Castle he v/ent in 1892 
to the First Presbyterian Church of West Chester, Pa., 
where he has continued ever since in a successful ministry 
and in the spring of 1917 was made pastor emeritus, his 
health incapacitating him for the exacting labors he had 
carried on for nearly twenty-five years. He is a trustee of 
Geneva College, Ohio. 

Married August 2t„ 1877, to Fannie E. Hadfield, who 
died October 23, 1907, after a long illness. To them were 
born six children. A son graduated from Lafayette Col- 
lege in the chemical course in 1916 and a daughter the 
same year from Swarthmore after leading her class and 
winning a prize of $200 and being elected to $. B. K. These 
two are twins. The third son, Harold, graduated from 
Lafayette in 1914, from Princeton Seminary in 1917, and 
has been installed pastor of the Arlington Presbyterian 



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Church of Bahimore, Md. He was married June 21, 19 17, 
to Velma McKinney, daughter of the pastor of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church of Coatesville, Pa. The oldest son, 
Renwick, was married live 3'ears ago to Esther Sampson 
and is living in Providence, R. I. 

On July II, 1910, Dr. Laird was married to Ellen M. 
Greene of West Chester, Pa. 

Laird received the degree of Ph.D. from Gale College, 
Wis., after pursuing a post-graduate course in philosophy. 
He has several times been a commissioner to the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church ; for more than ten 
years he was President of the Pennsylvania Sabbath school 
Assembly ; he has been Chairman of the Presbyterial Com- 
mittee on Evangelistic Work. 

In 19 1 3 Laird's health declined to such an extent that his 
congregation gave him a six months' leave of absence, con- 
tinuing his salary, and this period he spent in Bermuda, re- 
turning greatly improved so that he was able to resume his 
regular work. In March, 1917, finding his strength failing 
under his many duties and cares, he presented his resigna- 
tion to his church. It was received with dismay by his 
congregation, which finally made him pastor emeritus, and 
he is able to carry on some of his former activities but 
rarely preaches. His is the longest pastorate of his church, 
and under his ministrations it more than doubled its mem- 
bership besides expending substantial sums in the improve- 
ment of its buildings. The state of his health and his de- 
sire to attend the graduating exercises of two of his children 
kept him away from the Reunion in 19 16. 

MIRVEN FINDLEY LEASON, LL.B. Died May 29, 
1909. [See Record No. IX, page 190.] 
Leason's only son died April 13, 1913. Of the four 
daughters three are married. There are seven grandchildren. 

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JOHN GEORGE LYON 

Father, James B. Lyon, 
born in Centre County, Pa., 
in 1 82 1, glass manufactur- 
er, died in Pittsburgh 
April 16, 1909. 

Mother, Anna Margaret 
Lyon, born in 1827 at Car- 
lisle, Pa., died m Pittsburgh 
May 29, 1897. 

Born in Pittsburgh July 
20, 1855. Prepared in 
Pittsburgh, entered Prince- 
ton in 1872, and left in 
1874. Roomed in No. 8 
North Reunion. Since 
leaving college he has fol- 
lowed a business career as manufacturer and banker. The 
firm name now is Lyon, Singer and Company, investment 
bankers. Commonwealth Building, Pittsburgh. 

Married at Westerly, R. L, November 22, 1882, to Ade- 
lina Carr Langworthy, and they have three sons, two of 
whom are married, James to Jean Elphinstone November 2, 
191 1, and Prescott to Mary Louise Steele October 25, 1913. 
The third son is an Assistant Paymaster in the United 
States Navy. There is one grandchild, Hester Murtland 
Lyon, born April 6, 1916. 

JOHN GALBRAITH MACKY 

Father, Samuel Macky, born September 15, 1822, in 
County Donegal, Ireland, married in Baltimore, Md., No- 
vember 25, 1854, grain exporter in Philadelphia, S. Macky 
and Co., died in Philadelphia December 11, 1893. 

Mother, Margaret Ewing, born in Londonderry, Ireland, 

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March 17, 1824, died at 
Media, Pa., October 18, 
1905. 

Born in Philadelphia, 
October 31, 1855. Pre- 
pared at Hastings Military 
Academy, West Philadel- 
phia, entered Princeton in 
September, 1872, and left 
in June, 1874, "in good 
standing." Roomed in 15 
South Middle Reunion. In 
1874-5 he was in the grain 
business in Philadelphia, in 
1875-6 with the Millers" 
Association in Minneapolis, 

then in the grain business in Philadelphia 1877-8, in In- 
dianapohs 1878 to 1881, in Philadelphia and New York 
from 1881 to 1902. In 1902 he became Treasurer of the 
Acme Staple Company at Camden, N. J. 

He is Recording Secretary of the Presbyterian Sunday- 
school Superintendents' Association of Philadelphia and 
Vicinity. 

John is a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia. 

Married in Philadelphia September 4, 1878, to Lizzie 
Eves Hoopes, daughter of Paschal J. Hoopes, M.D., a 
graduate of Lafayette College and Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege. They have had four children, three of whom are still 
living. The son was married June 6, 1906, to Mildred 
Brooks and has two children, Walter Brooks, born May 
28, 1907, and Elizabeth Hoopes, July 19, 1909. 



HAROLD MANN, LL.B. Died July 31, 1889. [See Rec- 
ord No. V, page 117.] 



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LIEUT. COL. HAMILTON MARKLEY. Died April 4, 
1900. [See Record No. VII, page 144.] 

LINCOLN WOOD MARSTON, JR. Died November 16, 
1873. [See Record No. IV, page 153.] 



JOHN MILLS, LL.B. 
No report. 

CHARLES TALBOT MITCHELL. Died September 13, 
1887. [See Record No. VI, page 122.] 

DAVID JAY MURPHEY, JR. Died July 4, 1880. [See 
Record No. IV, page 157.] 

HENRY DUNCAN OLIPHANT 

Father, Gen. S. Duncan 
Oliphant, for thirty-four 
years Clerk of the United 
States Circuit Court for 
New Jersey, died October 
23, 1904. 

Born June 6, 1855, at 
Uniontown, Fayette Coun- 
ty, Pa. Prepared in schools 
at Uniontown, Pa., and 
Princeton and entered 
Princeton college in the 
fall of 1872. Member of 
Clio Hall. Left college in 
the spring of 1875 to take 
a position as clerk in the 
United States Circuit Court, which he held until October 
18, 1880, when he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the same 




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Court, an office he filled until he was promoted to the Clerk- 
ship of the Court by order dated October 29, 1904, by 
United States Circuit Court Judges Atcheson, Dallas and 
Grey, taking the oath of office November i, 1904, and thus 
succeeding his father in this position. He was appointed a 
Standing Examiner of the Court June 15, 1897, and he was 
prominently before the greatest lawyers of the country, 
notably in the famous shipbuilding cases. 

Married October 20, 1886, at Matawan, N. J., to Eliza- 
beth Vandeveer Dayton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 
B. Dayton, and they have three children, Duncan and A. 
Dayton, twins, and Elizabeth Vandeveer Oliphant. Dun- 
can is at present connected with the New Jersey Manufac- 
turers' Casualty Company as Auditor, and A. Dayton is a 
Counsellor-at-law practicing in Trenton and has been a 
member of the General Assembly of New Jersey for the 
past three years, last winter serving as floor leader of the 
Republican majority. On June 23, 1917. Duncan was mar- 
ried to Grace B. Howard, of Pitman, N. J. 

Henry was legislated out of office when the Circuit Courts 
were abolished by Federal enactment in 19 12, and he is 
now living retired at 160 West State Street, Trenton. He 
is an Elder and Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church 
of Trenton, a member of the Masonic order, being Past 
Master of Column Lodge, No. 120 and of the Chapter, and 
a member of the Trenton Country Club. iy\,i.A^^^ (ka^j^^ // - ^ 

V ^ 
WILLIAM PEARSON, LL.B. 

Father, John J. Pearson, born in Delaware County, Pa., 
September 30, 1800, married in Harrisburg, Pa., attorney- 
at-law and Judge, LL.D., died May 30, 1888, in Harris- 
burg, Pa. 

Mother, Mary Harris Briggs, born in Harrisburg in May, 
1815, died in Harrisburg in May. 1903. 

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Born in Harrisburg August 9, 1854. Prepared at Har- 
risburg Academy and entered Princeton in 1872, leaving in 
March, 1873, on account of failure of eyesight. Studied law 
and was admitted to the bar December i, 1876. In Janu- 
ary, 1882, he became Prothonotary of the Supreme Court 
of Pennsylvania, Middle District, and in 1895 Prothonotary 
of the Harrisburg District of the Superior Court of Penn- 
sylvania. He is the author of Pearson's Supreme Court 
Practice and the editor of Pearson's Reports. 

Member of the Country Club of Harrisburg, the Histori- 
cal Society of Dauphin County, the Dauphin County Bar 
Association and the State Bar Association. 

Married June 10, 1908, at Salem, Virginia, to Agnes 
Armstrong, and they have three sons, John, born June 8, 
1909, William, Jr., November 3, 1910, and Edward, April 
22, 1912. In October, 191 5, a newspaper reports that "a 
son of William Pearson, while at play, swallowed a poker 
chip, given him by a companion. A local surgeon advised 
that the lad be taken to a surgeon to have the chip removed. 
The father took the lad to a Pittsburgh surgeon, who, after, 
locating the chip with the X-ray, removed it in eleven sec- 
onds. The fee was $1000." A classmate comments, "The 
price paid for the chip is larger even than some of the Class 
were wont to pay in the good old days." 

HON ANDREW PRICE, LL.B. Died February 5, 1909. 
[See Record No. IX, page 197.] 

MARTIN RALPH 

"Jamaica, N. Y., 

July 5, 1917. 
"My dear Harrison, 

"I am in receipt of your request for information for the 
'76 Record, and I am going to put in the historic plea, T 

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pray thee have me excused.' My feet have led me so far 
astray from the paths of scholarship into activities that are 
foreign to all I had on the programme forty and five years 
ago, that I feel like being classed with the 'also ran.' 

"As to college relationship, from which I have now been 
separated for a longer time than ancient Israel wandered in 
the wilderness, I think all those things would better slumber 
off into the land of forgetfulness and join some other things 
that have passed and disappeared, never again to reappear 
on this side of that river which separates Time from that 
land beyond. 

"I am very thankful that my three older boys have ac- 
quired the 'college habit,' and every boy made his own 
choice. They have graduated from Cornell, Princeton and 
University of Pennsylvania, and my youngest boy is enter- 
ing High School this fall. Two boys are 'doing their bit' 
for Uncle Sam, Henry of Princeton 'lo is at Plattsburg and 
Ed is a dentist on volunteer service just now at the Brook- 
lyn Navy Yard. I mention these facts in passing as I think 
they show that love's labor was not entirely lost and some, 
you know, say love never faileth. 

"With best wishes, 

"Yours very truly, 

"Martin Ralph." 

JOHN P. ROBERTS 

No report. When last heard from, in October, 19 14, he 
was living at Cambria, Wis. 

JAMES A. ROBINSON 

Father, Alexander Parker Robinson, born in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., January 2, 1816, married September 11, 1845, farmer, 
died in Pittsburgh, December 22, 1854. 

Mother, Catharine Elizabeth Cofifey, born at Huntington, 

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Pa., July 24, 1822, died No- 
vember 22, 1902, in Phila- 
delphia. 

Born in Pittsburgh June 
5, 1854. Prepared at St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. 
H., entered Princeton in 
September, 1872, and left 
in December following, 
"first of the Class to quit, 
ah, ha." Member of Whig 
Hall and roomed in town. 
He is manager for Warren 
Webster and Co. in the 
Pittsburgh District. 

Member of the Pitts- 
burgh Athletic Club. 

Married in Baltimore, Md., April 29, 1891, to Sarah 
Katharine Loane, daughter of Joseph Gregory Loane, ship- 
builder, and they have two daughters. 

"I have very little of interest to write, as the events of 
my life vary but seldom and each year seems alike. My 
daughters are not married and are still at home to help 
look after the 'old man.' We all enjoy excellent health and 
if all families were like mine in that respect the physicians 
would starve. I am sorry that age bars me from taking an 
active part in this 'world scrap.' 
"With kindest regards I am, 

"Very sincerely yours, 

"James A. Robinson." 

JOSEPH MACKEY ROSEBERRY, A.M., LL.B. 

No report. He attended the dinner of the Princeton 
Men of the 'Seventies at the Princeton Club of New York, 
January 27, 1916. 

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THOMAS RANDOLPH SHEETS 

No report. Letters sent to him are not returned. 

OSCAR ADAM SLOAN 

Father, Andrew Moore Sloan, born at York, S. C, May 
20, 1816, a cotton factor, died at White Springs, Fla., Janu- 
ary 28, 1880. 

Mother, Sara Sahna McDowell, born at Charlotte, N. C, 
December i, 1816, died at Monticello, Fla., December 2, 
1882. 

Born at Rome, Ga., May 5, 1855. Prepared at Savan- 
nah, Ga., entered Princeton in September, 1872, and left in 
1874. Roomed in 12 North West. Since leaving college he 
has' been engaged in farming and is now in the lumber 
business. 

Married December i, 1887, at McDonough, Ga., to Eliza- 
beth Sloan, daughter of William Carrick Sloan, merchant,, 
and they have had three children, of whom one has died. 
The other two are married, Sara Eva to William Mont- 
gomery Cox, of Morganfield, Ky., but now of Okolona^ 
Miss., February 14, 1914, and Andrew Moore to Rebecca 
Britton, Atlanta, Ga., January 7, 191 5. There are two 
grandchildren, W^illiam Sloan Cox, born April 28, 191 5, 
and Andrew Moore Sloan HI, May 8, 1917. 

"June 12, '17. 
"Dear Classmate : 

"I am still living in the old place, Monticello, Fla., the 
best place on earth for a poor man to live in and enjoy the 
comforts and health that this balmy clime affords. There 
is no one to share these comforts with me but my devoted 
wife, who, I believe, is daily getting younger. Children all 
married and I am a grandpa twice but it does not affect my 
feelings. Hard times are here — war on — but thanks to our 
Heavenly Father we have a grand man at the head — Wood- 

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row W ilson — the grandest man that ever filled the chair 
at the \\'hite House. I was what you would term an 'origi- 
nal Wilson man.' 

"With best wishes as to health and prosperity, 
"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

"Oscar Adam Sloan.'"' 



WILLIAM MC BATH SMITH 

Father, Rev. William 
Hervey Smith, born near 
Knoxville, Tenn., October 
27, 1819, graduate of Mary- 
ville College, Maryville, 
Tenn., Presbyterian minis- 
ter, died at Morristdwn, 
Tenn., April 21, 191 1. 

Mother, Adeline Mc- 
Bath, born near Knoxville, 
Tenn., died in 1862. 

Born at Newport, East 
Tennessee, May 11, 1854. 
Prepared at Morristown, 
Tenn.. entered the junior 
class in 1874 and left at the 
close of junior year in 1875. Member of the Amercian 
\\'hig Society, roomed in 24 North College. Since leaving 
college he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits and is 
now Secretary of the Macgowan and Finigan Cordage Com- 
pany, distributers in ten States of the products of the Ply- 
mouth Cordage Company of North Plymouth, Mass., "the 
oldest and largest cordage mill in the world," established 
in 1824. 

He is an Elder in Westminster Presbyterian Church, 
member of the Princeton and Citv Clubs of S';. Louis. 




236 



Married at Morristown, Tenn., January i, 1877, to Fannie 
Black well Corbin, daughter of John S. Corbin, lawyer, a 
graduate of Princeton about 1850. They have had five 
children, of whom the first two died in infancy. Their two 
sons were married in 1909 and there are four grandchildren, 
two to each son, Virginia Gardner Smith, born February 
15, 1910, Justin Gardner Smith, October 29, 191 1; Millard 
Watts Smith, July 22, 191 1, and Martha Corbin Smith, 
November 17, 1914. 

"Macbeth" adds: "My two boys are in the insurance 
business, life and accident, and are meeting with splendid 
success. My daughter Ethel went abroad in August, 1913, 
spent a year in Europe, most of the time in Germany, trav- 
eled for the last three months and landed in Paris the day 
the war broke out. She had a time getting away from Paris 
but succeeded in reaching Havre and in getting a steamer 
for New York, coming over with the lights out." 

In another letter he says : "I had sincerely hoped that 
I could attend the next Reunion — fortieth — but it comes at 
the most inopportune month in the entire year for me. It 
is our shipping season, filling contracts for twine taken dur- 
ing the winter months and I look after the transportation 
of fifteen to twenty million pounds, which requires all my 
time and no one else can take my place as every other man 
connected with this office has his hands full at the same 
time. I am sorry for I would like very much to see how 
old '76 looks after forty years wandering." 

JORDAN STOKES, LL.B. 

Father, Jordan Stokes, born in Chatham County, N. C, 
August 23, 181 7, lawyer, died November 27, 1886. 

Mother, Martha Frazier, died June 19, 1883. 

Born at Lebanon, Tenn., November 25, 1854. Prepared 
at Cumljerland University, a small college at Lebanon, 

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Tenn., and entered Prince- 
ton in the fall of 1872. His 
health failed and he left 
Princeton in the middle of 
junior year. Was elected 
Class Historian, but was 
compelled to give up the 
work when he left college. 
Member of Whig Hall and 
won second prize in the 
Sophomore Essay contest. 
Roomed in 10 North Re- 
union, then in 15 North 
College. In the fall of 
1875 he entered Cumber- 
land University Law 
School and obtained his LL.B. in one year. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar and began the practice of law in June, 
1876. 

Married October 11, 1877, to Mary Whitworth, daughter 
of James Whitworth, banker and founder of the Fourth 
National Bank of Nashville, now the largest national bank 
in the South. They have had four children, of whom three 
are married, and there are nine grandchildren. 
"Jerry" writes under date of September 18, 1917: 
"I have devoted my life to the practice of law and never 
sought political office at any time. I have several times 
been selected as Special Chancellor in different Chancery 
Courts of this State to try important cases, and on one 
occasion, without my solicitation, the Governor appointed 
me to fill a temporary vacancy on our Court of Civil Ap- 
peals. 

"I have occupied the position of President of the Nash- 
ville Board of Education, President of the University Club, 



238 



President of the Nashville Golf & Country Club and Presi- 
dent of the Round Table. I am a Scottish Rite Mason, 
Knight Templar and Knight of Pythias. I have printed no 
works except lawyer's arguments and they are too dry for 
general reading. 

"My son James, my law partner, enlisted in the present 
war early in the action and is now a member of the Italian 
Squadron of the Aviation Corps. 

*T shall look forward with great interest to the appear- 
ance of the new Record to learn what all the boys are doing. 

"With kindest regards I am, 

"Yours very truly, 

"Jordan Stokes." 

He is a member of the Methodist Church and has at- 
tended many of its Conferences, including the General Con- 
ferences, as a delegate, and has held positions of trust and 
confidence in it. 

JONATHAN ROBERT SWEET. Died June 3, 1897. 
[See Record No. VH, page 153.] 

REV. BEVERLEY ELLISON WARNER, D.D., LL.D. 
Died November 27, 1910. [See Record No. IX, page 
212.] 



239 



SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 



ISAAC WELLING COOLEY 
No report. 



HON. ROLLA WELLS, A.M. 

Father, Erastus Wells, 
born December 2, 1822, at 
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., oc- 
cupation, banking and rail- 
roads, member of Congress 
from 1869 to 1877, died in 
St. Louis, Mo., October 2, 

1893- 

Mother, Isabella Bow- 
man Henry, born at Jack- 
sonville, 111., June 21, 1829, 
died in St. Louis, Mo., 
August 18, 1877. 

Born June i, 1856, in 
St. Louis, Mo. Prepared 
at ^^^ashington University, 
entered Princeton in the fall of 1873, and left before com- 
pleting the year. Returning to St. Louis he became assist- 
ant superintendent, and in 1878 superintendent, of the Mis- 
souri Street Railway Company, and superintendent of the 
West End Narrow Gauge Railroad. Retiring from rail- 
way operation in 1883 he took up the management of his 
father's various business enterprises, and in 1893 became 
President of the American Steel Foundry Company. In 




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December, 191 1, he was elected President of the Business 
Men's League, the largest business organization in the State 
of Missouri. In March, 1901, he received the Democratic 
nomination for Mayor of St. Louis and in April was elected 
by a plurality of about eight thousand votes. In 1905 he 
was renominated and reelected, serving until 1909 when on 
his retiring from the office his fellow citizens tendered him 
a banquet in recognition of his valuable services to the city. 
As Mayor he took a leading part in many of the functions 
connected with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, enter- 
taining among others Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of 
the Kaiser. With several other Americans there was be- 
stowed on him the Order of the Red Eagle of the third 
class. In 1905 he was decorated with the Chinese Order 
of the Double Dragon and the Japanese Order of the Ris- 
ing Sun. 

He has always been active in politics and Avas a delegate 
to the National Democratic Convention in 1896. The same 
year he became President of the Sound Money Democratic 
Club of St. Louis. From 1912 to 1916 he served as treas- 
urer of the Democratic National Committee which man- 
aged the campaign of Woodrow Wilson for President. 
Upon the inauguration of the Federal Reserve System he 
was elected a member of the Advisory Council and on Oc- 
tober 29, 1914, was chosen Governor of the Federal Re- 
serve Bank of St. Louis, the third largest in the system, 
and this position he still holds. "He was induced to take 
the post only on the representation that in no other way 
could he render so large a service to the community." In 
1912 he received the degree of A.M. from Washington 
University and in 19 16 the same degree from Princeton 
University. 

Married October 2, 1878, in St. Louis to Jennie Howard 
Parker, daughter of Lloyd Parker, manufacturer. Mrs. 

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Edward Stlles Ely 



Edward Packard Holden 




\\'ells died in St. Louis April 8, 1917. To them were born 
five children, four of whom are married : Maud to J. Clark 
Streett November 12, 1902; Erastus, Princeton '03, to Julia 
Knapp August 22, 1905 ; June H. to Thomas K. Smith, 
April 27, 1916; Isabella to Elzey M. Roberts, June 18, 
19 1 7. Lloyd Wells, Princeton '07, is not married. The 
grandchildren are : Rolla Wells Streett, born January 3, 
1904, Maud Streett, August 22, 1905, Douglas Streett, 
April 14, 1907, Clark Streett, August 13, 1913, Julia Wells, 
September 19, 1907, Rolla Wells, May 27, 1909, June Wells, 
August 26, 1 9 14. 

Mr. Wells' clubs are the St. Louis, University, St. Louis 
Country, Log Cabin, Racquet, Noonday, Quiver and Kin- 
lock. 

He was in Princeton for the Commencement Exercises 
in 1916 but was not able to attend any of the Class functions 
as he had to return to St. Louis as soon as possible. 



243 



SUPPLEMENTARY 

Bonner. The oldest son Griffith is at the International 
Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield (November, 1917), tak- 
ing the war course and will go to France. 

Chambers sailed October 29, 1917, to take up his resi- 
dence at Geneva, Switzerland, where he will be Financial 
Agent for the A. B. C. F. M. and continue work for Ar- 
menian and Syrian Relief, in which he has been engaged 
for nearly a year. He reports a grandchild, Dorothea Cham- 
bers Seelye, born June 8, 19 17. 

Fulton, A. A., was in New York in October, 1917, on a 
brief furlough, to raise funds for the Union Theological 
Seminary at Canton, China. He met several classmates, 
among them Chambers, whom he had not seen since gradu- 
ation. 

Hamilton, H. P. The older son has been doing edi- 
torial work on The Evening Mail of New York and during 
the summer of 191 7 he directed a summer camp for boys 
in Indiana, while awaiting a transfer from Company E, 
First Indiana Infantry to an aviation corps. The younger 
son is a partner in a firm dealing in optical and engineering 
supplies in Mexico City. 

Henry. Howard H., '04 is Captain in the Quartermas- 
ter's Department, stationed at Kansas City, where he is pur- 
chasing remounts. Snowden Henry '20 is in France, Top 
Sergeant of the Headquarters Company of the 35th Regi- 
ment of Engineers. Isaac W. Roberts '03, Bayard's son- 
in-law is First Lieutenant in the U. S. A. Aviation Corps. 
Bayard is acting as attorney for the Advisory Draft Board. 

244 



Wardlaw 

Newport News, Va. 
Nov. 8, 1917. 
Dear Harrison, 

. . . You know, I was sure we would get into this war, 
or ought to. I was expecting to do my bit. I had been 
keeping myself fit for three years. I worked at haying, 
harvesting, road making, I hunted, fished, climbed hills and 
ran. I fished in rain and snow, even when I had to break 
ice. I rode after foxes and ran after hounds on foot, so I 
would be hardened to cold. Well, the war came. I thought 
we might have a navy base in the Azores where they speak 
Portuguese. I know the language as well as I do English. 
"Too old," was the response from the Navy. 

My wife and I talked of our little boy who never breathed 
and whom we shall always regret, and I found that she, as 
well as I, had the same thought. He would be of age to 
serve his country and we should have hated for him to be 
a slacker. We agreed that I should substitute for him. 
After she decided to shut up our home and go to our 
daughter in Cuba, I, having been rejected in the engineer 
regiment, came here to be near the scene of action to apply 
to the Adjutant General of the Army, who could waive the 
age limit. He referred my application to the War College; 
it advised me that I was listed and would be called if needed 
as French interpreter. Part of my plan was to get to 
France on a horse boat. I was about going when the Eng- 
lish officer who was arranging my transportation said he 
would get me there, but could not guarantee my not being 
sent back on some transport. 

I saw the Red Cross needed 5000 stretcher bearers. I 
applied, the same answer. So here I am. I guarded ships 
and docks where are acres of shells and millions of muni- 
tions belonging to the Allies. Now that is being done by 
the Army but I have had a proposition to work as a de- 

245 



tective. For over seventy nights I did not sleep in bed and 
a number of times was on watch for thirty-six hours at a 
time. 

Well, the hardened candidate for the Army has been very 
sick and fainted three times in about an hour. I did not 
die (as once I thought I was dying) and am now ready to 
go at it again. 

There are large numbers of soldiers here and I entertain 
them as I can by having them to meals and in my steam- 
heated room. They enjoy such slight things, as camp life 
is not like home. The Government is building about four 
cities within fifteen miles of here and I see and learn a lot 
the Government does not make public. I used to see men 
daily who had been torpedoed. The shipyard here is large 
and I spent over two months on ships on its front. 

This peninusula has seen more history made than any 
other twenty square miles in America, and it is still mak- 
ing. I can see aeroplanes any time, soldiers, bluejackets 
and marines crowd the streets ; you have to dodge army 
trucks loaded with men and supplies and — well. I will be 
my own censor. 

Counting the families of my sons-in-laws there are, or 
were, twenty-one of our connections in the war, so you 
see how interested I am. Virginia's husband had one 
nephew killed, one wounded and one unscathed at Vimy 
Ridge. Only my one nephew, who was a member of Squad- 
ron A, New York, was mustered out on account of eye- 
sight when his troop went to the border. He tried to get 
in everywhere since, but without success. My other neph- 
ews are all in. If I do not get to go across, I will go to 
New York before my Argentine daughter and family go to 
Brazil. 

My wife's uncle, Graeme Harrison, married Fred. Mar- 
quand's widow. Their son was wounded the first few days 

246 



of the war and is now a colonel in the British Army, if we 
have been rightly informed. 

This is a long letter from a poor correspondent. 
Sincerely yours, 

De Lacey Wardlaw. 

Denny 

Collins Denny, Jr., is a member of the Class of 1921 at 
Princeton. 

Macky 

Lucy Walker Macky was married January 19, 191 8, in the 
Chapel of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, 
Md., to Marcus Bayard Butler, Jr., U. S. N. R. F. 

Oliphant 

Henry Duncan Oliphant died at his home in Trenton, 
N. J., on January 11, 19 18, after an illness of several 
months. His son Hon. A. Dayton Oliphant was appoint- 
ed by the Governor of New Jersey Prosecutor of Mercer 
County in January, 19 18, and the appointment was con- 
firmed by the Senate. 



247 



76 AND THE WAR 

Classmates and their children who are engaged in some 
form of service :— army, navy, marines, aviation, ambu- 
lance, nursing, Red Cross, relief, food production, Y. M. C. 
A., or Y. W. C. A., as far as the Record Committee has 
been informed ; doubtless there are many more. 

Barkley — son 

Bonner — self, three sons, daughter 

H. Brown — self, two sons 

W. A. Butler — two sons (one since deceased), daughter 

Chambers — self 

Evans — one son 

H. P. Hamilton— one son 

R. W. Hamilton — one son 

Henry — self, two sons 

Jenkins — one son 

Robert W. Johnson — self 

Thomas D. Jones — self 

Lytle — two sons 

Markoe — son 

McKittrick — son 

Patterson — two sons 

Perrine — self 

Riker — daughter 

F. S. Smith — son 

Stewart — one son 

Van Dike — son 

Wardlaw — self 

Woods — one son 

W. B. McKoy — two sons 

J. G. Lyon — one son 

Ralph — two sons 

Stokes — one son 

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MARRIAGES AND BIRTHS 

For the lists of the marriages and of the children of the 
Class, see the 191 1 Record. Since it was issued two chil- 
dren have been added to the roll and there have been two 
marriages. 

NECROLOGY 

GRADUATES— ACADEMIC 
Henry Rush Biddle, January 3, 1877 
George Fielding Ficklen, May 10, 1877 
Lieut. Jonathan Williams Biddle, September 30, 1877 
Lewis Malford Walker, May 10, 1878 
Robert Jacob Ross, April 10, 1879 
Samuel Davis Melton, December 10, 1880 
Warren Woodward, December 3, 1881 
Charles Hartridge, November 23, 1882 
Brodie Jackman Crawford, July 27, 1883 
Frederick Alexander Marquand, December 20, 1885 
Rev. Albert Van Deusen, January 10, 1886 
George DuBois Parmly, M.D., December 29, 1889 
Henry Horace Webster, January 17, 189 1 
Lieut. Leighton Finley, February 12, 1894 
George Burnham Martin, April 29, 1896 
Rev. Harris Rogers Schenck, June 21, 1898 
Rev. William Edgar Plumley, May 14, 1901 
Cornelius Cuyler Gregory, December 4, 1901 
Frank Safford Smith, September 19, 1903 
Samuel Bartow Greene, May 10, 1904 

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Rev. Hiram Philetus Hamilton, August 20, 1905 

Arthur Baldwin Turnure, April 13, 1906 

Robert Nairne Todd, November 18, 1906 

Thomas Alexander Noble, February 10, 1907 

Frederick Parker, August 17, 1907 

Francis Hartman Markoe, M.D., September 13, 1907 

John Fletcher Duffield, M.D., March 14, 1912 

Rev. Edward Charles Evans, D.D., October 23, 1912 

Franklin Buchanan Smith, M.D., November 5, 1912 

Rev. George Knox, D.D., December 19, 1912 

William Allan Cleland, February 27, 191 3 

Jay Henry Long, August 28, 19 13 

Henry Cleves Symmes, M.D., May 8, 1914 

Thomas Ireland Elliott, December 5, 191 5 

Rev. Samuel Graham Wilson, D.D., July 2, 1916 

John Cook Latta Pugh, August 6, 1916 

Morris Nahum Johnson, September 30, 1916 

Rev. William James McKittrick, D.D., December 13, 1916 

Rev. Leonard Walter Lott, May 10, 191 7 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 
Frank Davenport Cook, December — 1887 
Robert Hasell McKoy, October 29, 1901 
John Aycrigg Hegeman, M.D., September 23, 1908 
John Giles Cecil, M.D., December 12, 1913 
Charles Robinson Smith, May 12, 1916 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 
Lincoln Wood Marston, November 16, 1873 
James Sears Dickerson, February 26, 1876 
David Jay Murphey, Jr., July 4, 1880 
Harry Backus Kaufman, December 27, 1882 
Rev. Charles Page Emerson, January 19, 1887 
Charles Talbot Mitchell, September 13, 1887 

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Allen Taylor Kyle, April 5, 1889 

Harold Mann, July 31, 1889 

Charles Froome Bragg, February 22, 1893 

Jonathan Robert Sweet, June 3, 1897 

Hamilton Markley, April 4, 1900 

Bernard Charles Cuvellier, May 8, 1905 

John Kerfoot Bryden, June 5, 1907 

Andrew Price, February 5, 1909 

Mirven Findley Leason, May 29, 1909 

Rev. Beverley Ellison Warner, D.D., November 27, 1910 

Rev. Thomas Cumming Beattie, September 22, 19 13 

Augustus Hencheman Dellicker, October 12, 191 5 

In five year periods the deaths have been as follows : 

Ending '76 '81 '86 '91 '96 '01 '06 '11 '17 

Deaths 2 7 6 7 3 4 7 9 17 



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MARRIAGES OF CHILDREN 

GRADUATES— ACADEMIC 
An NESS 

Marjorie to Frederick E. Lane, March 5, 1906 
Ball 

Ethel to Wilham Staniar, February 17, 191 1 

Dorothy to Hugo Schlatter, March 2, 1914 
Barkley 

Marjorie Agnes to Franklyn E. McCIure, September 26, 

1905 

Mary Gladys to Frank Chandler Sibley, June 18, 1912 
Bonner 

Hampton to Margaret Louise Wood, September 26, 1914 
Brown, J. P. 

Dorothy to Norman B. McWilliams, M.D., June 2, 191 7 
Butler, W. A. 

Lydia to Maitland Dwight (Princeton '11) May 26, 1914 
Chaffee 

Harold to Fannie Smith, May 29, 1907 

James to Jean Compton, April 30, 1910 

Margaret to Robert Moseley, June 20, 191 1 

Arthur B., Jr., to Dorothy Stohr, July 15, 191 5 
Chambers 

Kate Ethel to Rev. Laurens H. Seelye, November, 191 5 
Chapin 

Francis Stuart to Estelle Peck, September 7, 191 1 
Clarke 

Paul McCosh to Hazel Grant, June 3, 1917 



Conger, A. B. 

Mary Stockton to Edward Thompson Boggs, January 

7, 1912 
Katharine Rutgers to Franklin Taylor Clark, June 23, 
1917 

Cowan 

Cora Elizabeth to Ivan S. Rankin, May 24, 1916 

Denny 

Margaret Collins to Rev. John Wesley Dixon, 1905 
Elizabeth Chapman to Rev. Eugene E. Vann, 1908 
Edith Allen to Rev. Roscoe M. White, 1913 

Dresser 

Genevieve to *Luis Gaston, December 22, 1907 
Lawrence Tyler to Aileen Mousch, June 16, 1908 

Edwards 

Richard to Marie Stuart, October 11, 1904 
Florence to Robert Campbell, May 31, 19 10 

*EVANS 

Edward R. to Mary Helena McBean, June 18, 1913 

Fulton, A. A. 

Edith to Arthur J. Paige, December, 1909 
Ralph W. to Helen Dunlap, 19 13 

Gillespie 

Kenneth to Jennie B. Banner, December 28, 1914 
Calloway to Zina Alice Robinson, July 12, 1917 

*Hamilton, H. p. 

Elizabeth to Louis D'A. Rossire, May 10, 191 5 
Edward to Katharine Gulick, April 15, 1916 

Hamilton, R. W. 

Eben Stewart Burt to Elsie Stewart, January 18, 1913 
Robin Victor to Marie Hanna, January 26, 1916 

Henderson 

William H. to Helen Vaughn, March i, 1909 
Florence Vaulx to Robert Petrie, February 15, 1913 

* Deceased. 

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Henry 

Howard to Mae Drexel Fell, June 23, 1904 
Caroline to Isaac Warner Roberts, October 12, 1909 

Jenkins 

Eleanor to William Lowry Meador, May, 1909 

James, C, Jr., to Betty Maxey Chiles, January 31, 1917 

Johnson, Robert W. 

Julia to Gordon Johnston, May 25, 1904 
Ella to James M. Rhodes, Jr., April 26, 1905 
Katharine to Robert Garrett, May i, 1907 

Kaufman 

Grace to Francis Watkinson Cole, April 16, 1910 

*Knox 

Elizabeth to Robert A. Simpson, December 28, 1904 
Florence to W. E. Shively, May 26, 191 1 
Alexander to Lois Humiston, September, 191 2 
Helen to Forest J. Funk, November, 1916 

*LONG 

Olive to L. M. Lowe, June 21, 1897. 
Stacy to Edith Searles, July 23, 1905 
Jay 1912 

Lytle 

Julia to Charles Chambers, June 8, 1904 

Sophie Ridgely to Rev. Roscoe Conkling Hatch, October 

12, 1912 
Richard Ridgely, Jr., to Elizabeth Fine Spahr, February 

23, 1917 
Florence to Ernest Van Zandt, June 26, 1917 
Mann 

Peter Carter to Grace E. Stowell, April 29, 191 1 
Joseph Francis to Bertha Keller Allen, November 15, 
1916 
*Markoe 

Francis H., Jr., to Mariella Yorke-Powell, July 6, 1912 

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*Marquand 

Alice to Alan Fullerton 

Elizabeth to John Seymour Mellor 
*Martin 

Margaret Helen to Maynard Taylor Strickland, July i, 
1916 

MiLBURN 

Joseph W., to Jean Ewing Pollack, April 10, 1913 
William R. to Ethel Mae Dick, November 10, 191 5 
Miller 

Evelyn to Walter M. Evatt 

Katherine to A. Sager 

George Scudder to Helene Elaine Lyon, August 14, 1917 

*NOBLE 

Minnie to Harry E. Rosser, September 15, 1908 
Orita 

Teruko to Hagiwara Sugakiko, 1906 

Aritomo, 1908 • 
Patterson 

Sara to Thomas Mercer Marshall IH, November 4, 1913 
*Plumley 

Howard to Ada Southworth Worrell, April 12, 1906 

Stuart to Nellie D. Steell 

Gardiner to Matilda Jones, 191 1 
Rice 

Herbert to Mary E. Compton, October 21, 1913 
Riley 

Albert G. to Myrtle May Knapp, April 2, 1908 

Robert H. to Leila Crosby, June, 1910 
Rudy 

Susan 

Alma 
Scudder 

Charles to Katherine D. Waite, April 5, 1910 

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Shoemaker 

Lorraine to Dorothy Turner, October, 1907 
*Smith, F. B. 

Charlotte Patterson to Edward J. Smith, October 26, 
1916 
*Smith, F. S. 

Eleanor Stafford to Benjamin F. Chamberlain, May 10, 

1913 

Smith, J. A. L. 

Ethel Wishard to George H. Syckelmoore, June 29, 191 1 
Maud Rue to William D. Herbert, September 23, 19 12 
Samson Hodge to Grace Albitz, November 11, 1912 
Mary Louise to William Edgar Wilkinson, June 3, 1914 

Stevenson, A. R. 

Thomas Kennedy to Candace Thurber, May 21, 1912 

Stewart 

Helen to Edwin Huyler, June 21, 191 1 

George B., Jr., to Janet C. Wilson, August i, 191 1 

Taylor 

Mabel Heyward to Gift'ord A. Cochran, February 14, 1906 
Edith More to A. M. Patterson, November 7, 1908 

Van Lennep 

Rebecca Reeves to John Dean Elliott, M.D., April 3, 1907 

Wardlaw 

Virginia to James William Adamson, May 5, 1908 

Blanche to Frank R. Welb, December 28, 1909 

Mary Louise to William M. Thomson, August 22, 1912 

Whittlesey 

Cedric to Myrtle Belle Beach, June 22, 1914 

Woods 

James S. to Dorothy Day, May 19, 1908 
Margaretta M. to Herbert S. Kent, April 19, 1914 
William J. to Myrtle Sebrell. November 5, 1914 



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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

*Cecil 

Mary to J. Van Dyke Norman, October 12, 1904 
Stuart to Lucile Drummond, December 29, 1908 
Martha to James Morrison Wilson, November 7, 1912 

*McKoY, R. H. 

Mary Hasell to George B. Brooks, August 29, 1902 
Louis Brown to Eloise McCurdy Erwin, August 11, 1914 
Adair Morey to Katie Grainger, April, 191 5 

McKoY, W. B. 

William A. to Mary Elizabeth Dobson, August 7, 1916 

*Smith, C. R. 

Mowry to Katharine Lawton Ives, April 11, 1917 

Stevenson, W. P. 
Walker W. 

NON-GRADUATES— ACADEMIC 

*CUVELLIER 

Rene to *Florence Ray, April 14, 1903 
*Dellicker 

Mary W. to B. F. Leslie, April 30, 1901 
Ely 

Daphne to Arthur Worthington Bunnel, September 16, 

1913 

HOLDEN 

Elizabeth to Roderick A. Dorman, June i, 1910 
Margaretta to Minot C. Morgan, May 11, 191 1 
Edward P., Jr., to Helen Humbert, February 16, 1916 

Laird 

Renwick S. to Esther Sampson, 1912 
Harold to Velma McKinney, June 21, 1917 

*Leason 

Mary to Harry W. Bovard, December 27, 1904 
*Jefferson to Margaret Bufhngton, November 4, 1909 

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Judith to John W. Rohrer, July 14, 191 4 

Helen to Benjamin L. Arnold, September 11, 1912 

Lyon, J. G. 

James to Jean Elphinstone, November 2, 191 1 
Prescott to Mary Louise Steele, October 25, 191 3 

Macky 
Henry to Mildred Brooks, June 6, 1906 
Lucy to Marcus Bayard Butler, Jr., January 19, 1918 

Mills 

Edith Fay to Darius La Valley, 1909 

Oliphant 

Duncan to Grace B. Howard, June 23, 1917 

Sloan 

Sara Eva to William Montgomery Cox, February 14, 1914 
Andrew to Rebecca Britton, January 7, 191 5 

Smith, W. McB. 

L. Corbin to Frances Willard Gardner, May 12, 1909 
Oliver to Laura May Watts, December i, 1909 

Stokes 

Anna to Henry Clinton Parrant, December 4, 1901 
Jordan, Jr., to Elsie Warren, December 24, 1902 
Martha to Daniel A. Lindsey, April 22, 1903 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 
Wells 

Maud to J. Clark Streett, November 12, 1902 
Erastus to Julia Knapp, August 22, 1905 
June to Thomas K. Smith, April 27, 191 6 
Isabella to Elzey M. Roberts, June 18, 1917 



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GRANDCHILDREN 

GRADUATES— ACADEMIC 

Anness 

Elizabeth Garrison Lane, March 5, 1907 
Virginia Fox Lane, April 27, 1910 
MiUicent Newkirk Lane, May 23, 19 13 
Ball 

Jean Ross Staniar, August i, 1912 
Aline Ball Schlatter, April 5, 1915 
Barkley 

*Franklyn Barkley McClure, October i, 1907 
Marjorie Louise McClure, March 20, 1909 
Mary Conwell Sibley, October 19, 1913 
Butler, W. A. 

Maitland Dwight, Jr., March 31, 1915 
Chaffee 

Laurence William Chaffee, August 12, 1909 
Ruth EHzabeth Chaffee, February 11, 1914 
Louise Chaffee, May 31, 1916 
Bettie Chaffee, June 13, 1915 
June Chaffee, June 9, 1916 
Chambers 

Dorothea Chambers Seelye, June 8, 191 7 
Chapin 

Edward Barton Chapin, July i, 19 14 
Francis Stuart Chapin, Jr., April i, 1916 
Conger 

Arthur Brenton Boggs 
Mary Stockton Boggs 

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Denny 

*Collins Denny Vann, / ^ _ 

Felix Hoffman Vann, } J^^^""^'^ ^' '^"^ 
Elizabeth Denny Dixon, March 2, 1910 
*John Wesley Dixon, Jr., August 19, 1913 
Mary Barbour Dixon, March 2, 191 5 
Collins Denny White, March 24, 1914 
Lucy Chapman White, November 30, 191 5 

Dresser 

Luis Dresser Gaston, March 25, 1909 

Edwards 

Richard Arthur Edwards II, May 14, 1909 
Elizabeth Aitkin Campbell 
Mary Alice Campbell. 

*EVANS 

Edward George Evans, April 15, 1914 
Fulton, A. 

Dorothy Paige, October, 1910 

Arthur J. Paige, 1914 

Helen Elizabeth Fulton, 191 3 

Dunlap Fulton, 1916 
Gillespie 

Kenneth Banner Gillespie, November 22, 19 15 
Hamilton, R. W. 

Robert Stewart Burt Hamilton, July 23, 1914 

Geoff ry Cadzow Hamilton, January 5, 191 7 
Henderson 

Jane Esther Henderson, March 17, 1914 
Henry 

Sarah Henry, March 28, 1905 

Algernon Roberts, October 3, 1910 

Bayard Henry Roberts 

Mary Elizabeth Roberts 



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'76's Oldest Grandchild 
Percy Marple Lowe at the age of i6, born January 13, 1899, the 
son of Mrs. L. M. Lowe, of Glyndon, Minn., and grandson of Jay 
Henry Lowe. 



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Johnson, Robert W. 

*Robert Garrett, Jr., April 30, 1908 
Julia Brock Garrett, May 11, 1909 
Harrison Garrett, April 27, 191 1 
Johnson Garrett 
Alice Whitridge Garrett 

Kaufman 

Francis Watkinson Cole, Jr., September 3, 1912 
William Kaufman Cole, October 5, 19 14 

*Knox 

Robert Crozier Simpson, x\pril 2, 1906 
David McCord Simpson, February 14, 1908 
Esther Simpson, July 15, 191 1 
Elizabeth Simpson, February 13, 1916 
Josephine Knox, July 10, 19 13 
Harriet Lydia Shively, June 23, 1913 
William Shively, February 20, 191 5 
Mary Alice Shively, January 2, 1917 

*Long 

Percy Lowe, January 13, 1899 
Howard Lowe, September 20, 1900 
Kenneth Searles Long, July 23, 1907 
Jay Henry Long, October 12, 1908 
Merriam Alice Long, March 2, 1910 
Edith Gail Long, February 25, 19 15 

Lytle 

Lytle Graef Chambers, September 12, 1909 
Roscoe Conkling Hatch, October 12, 19 13 
Mary Arnold Gray Hatch, July 24, 19 16 

Mann 

Doris Frances Mann, June i, 1915 
Robert Carter Mann, September 7, 19 17 

Miller 

Emylie Evatt, May 5, 1906 
Kathryn Evatt, May 25, 1907 
Marjorie Evatt, October 10, 1910 

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*N0BLE 

William Noble Rosser, October 5, 1909 

Thomas Earl Rosser, July 30, 191 1 

Harry Edwin Rosser, Jr., March 5, 1916 
Orita 

Masas Sugakiko, April 26, 1908 

Takekiko Sugakiko, June, 1910; *October, 1913 

Yoshiko (girl), April, 1913 

Fumiko Orita (girl), September 12, 1910 

Masatora, March 13, 1914 

Toshitake, January 3, 19 13 

Masatake, November 11, 191 5 

Masako (girl), April, 1914 

A boy, after June 16, 1916 
Patterson 

Thomas Mercer Marshall, IV, September, 1914 
* Plum LEY 

Alfred Noroton Plumley 

Emily Louise Plumley, October 17, 191 1 
Riley 

Edna May Riley, January 19, 1910 

Donald Crosby Riley, September 27, 191 1 

SCUDDER 

Charles Damarin Scudder, Jr., May 4, 1912 
Sarah Katherine Scudder, February 20, 1916 

Shoemaker 

Frederick Lebbeus Shoemaker, December 27, 1908 
Dorothy Eloise Shoemaker, July 8, 1910 
Elsie Jeanne Shoemaker, April 8, 1913 

*Smith, F. B. 

Charlotte Patterson Smith, July 19, 191 7 

*Smith, F. S. 

Emily Chamberlain, May 11, 1914 



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Smith, J. A. L. 

William George Syckelmoore, April 28, 1912 ; *April 29, 
1912 

Ruth Sycklemoore, May 24, 191 5 

Jean Herbert, October 27, 1914 

Louise Prentice Wilkinson, May 8, 191 5 

John Hodge Smith, March 13, 1916 
Stevenson, A. R. 

Caroline Stuart Stevenson, December 26, 1913 
Stewart 

Mary Elizabeth Huyler 

George Black Stewart HI, August 8, 1914 
Taylor 

Gifford A. Cochran, Jr., December 4, 1906 

Jean Cochran, September 30, 1908 

Drayton Cochran, December 2, 1909 

Albert Mansfield Patterson, 3rd, September 7, 1910 
Van Lennep 

Frances Marshall Elliott, June 3, 1908 

John Dean Elliott, Jr., July 16, 1909 

Clara Hart Elliott, April 30, 191 2 
Wardlaw 

Mary Virginia Adamson, July 6, 1910 

Jessie Buxton Adamson, July 14, 191 2 

George DeLacey Adamson, May 16, 1914; *September 

30, 1915 

Donald Wardlaw Thomson, July 8, 1913 

DeLacey Alexander Thomson, August 8, 1914 
Whittlesey 

Lillian Whittlesey, May 17, 191 5 
Woods 

Sterrett Day Woods, October i, 1909 

James Sterrett Woods, Jr., October 24, 1911 

Samuel Hamilton Woods, March 20, 1913 

Sarah Elizabeth Kent, April 19, 19 14 

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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

*Cecil 

J. Van Dyke Norman, Jr., August 28, 1905 
Stuart Robinson Cecil, Jr., June 18, 19 14 
John Cecil Norman, August 28, 1906 
Mary Cecil Norman, June 17, 191 1 
*Twin Sister 

Elizabeth Cecil Wilson, November 27, 191 3 
Nancy Ray Wilson, September 21, 191 5 

*McKoY, R. H. 

Nida McKoy Brooks 

Adair Morey McKoy, Jr., April, 19 16 

McKoY, W. B. 

William Ancrum McKoy, Jr., 191 7 

Stevenson, W. P. 

W^alker W. Stevenson, Jr. 
Margaretta B. Stevenson 

NON-GRADUATES 
ACADEMIC 

*CUVELLIER 

*Carmelita Florence Cuvellier 
*A child 
*Dellicker 

Clyde Dellicker Leslie, September 12, 1903 
Barbara Leslie, December 4, 1904 
Francis Ward Leslie, February 26, 1906 

HOLDEN 

Minot Canfield Morgan, Jr., June 30, 1913 
*Leason 

Mirven Leason Bovard, March 10, 1906 
Maxwell Orr Bovard, March 20, 1908 
Ruth Reynolds Bovard, November 30, 1909 

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James Wilson Bovard, November 15, 1912 
Jefferson Reynolds Leason, Jr., July 8, 191 1 
Isobel Ross Arnold, December 18, 19 13 
Judith Leason Rohrer, May 5, 1916 

Lyon, J. G. 

Hester Murtland Lyon, April 6, 19 16 

Macky 

Walter Brooks Macky, May 28, 1907 
Elizabeth Hoopes Macky, July 19, 1909 

Sloan 

William Sloan Cox, April 28, 191 5 
Andrew Moore Sloan III, May 8, 191 7 

Smith, W. McB. 

Virginia Gardner Smith, February 15, 1910 
Millard Watts Smith, July 22, 191 1 
Justin Gardner Smith, October 29, 191 1 
Martha Corbin Smith, November 17, 1914 

Stokes 

Henry Clinton Parrent, Jr., August 5, 1902 
Marie Stokes Parrent, December 4, 1903 
Frances Stokes, February 19, 1904 
Mary Whitworth Lindsey, April 11, 1906 
Jordan Stokes. HI, December 4, 1906 
Elsie Stokes, February 19, 1907 
Daniel A. Lindsey, Jr., November i, 1907 
Anna Corinne Parrent, April 18, 1908 
James W. Stokes, July 21, 1909 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 
Wells 

Rollo Wells Streett, January 3, 1904 
Maud Streett, August 22, 1905 
Douglas Streett, April 14, 1907 
Julia Wells, September 19, 1907 

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Rolla Wells, May 27, 1909 
Clark Streett, August 13, 1913 
June Wells, August 26, 19 14 



RECAPITULATION 

The total membership of the Class is 157, distributed as 
follows: Graduates, Academic, no; School of Science, 
8 ; non-graduates, Academic, 37 ; School of Science, 2. 

Deceased: Academic, 39; School of Science, 5; non- 
graduates. Academic, 18. Total, 62. 

The living members of the Class number as follows: 
Graduates, Academic, 71; School of Science, 3; non-grad- 
uates, Academic, 19; School of Science, 2. Total, 95. 

Reports have not been received from graduates: Aca- 
demic, 5; School of Science, o; non-graduates. Academic, 6, 
School of Science, i ; but something has been given under 
several of the names, derived from former Records, news- 
paper clippings, etc. Nothing has been heard regarding 
Rudy, J. Conger, Mills, Sheets and Cooley since 191 1. 

There have been married: Graduates, Academic, 90; 
School of Science, 8 ; non-graduates. Academic, 29 ; School 
of Science, i. Total, 128. 

The children of the Class, as reported, number 405 (of 
whom 62 are deceased) ; to graduates. Academic, were born 
300; School of Science, 26; non-graduates, Academic, 74; 
School of Science, 5. 

Of these children the marriages reported number 137. 
The grandchildren reported number 171, of whom ten 
have died. 

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i29th COMMENCEMENT. 



June 28th, i8y6. 



\o(^?^^ 



PROGRAM M E. 

PRAYER BY THE PRESIDENT. 

The Latin Salutatory 

David Benton Jones, VVisconsin. 
The English Salutatory 

Thomas Davies Jones, Wisconsin 
Philosophical Oration. Literary Criticism 

Moses Allen Starr, New Jersey 
Philosophical Oration. The Inefficiency of Satire as an Agent of Reform. 

Alexander Russell Stevenson, Pennsylvania. 
The Modern Language Oration Meditation and Action. 

Albert Van Deusen, New York. 

Belles Lettres Oration. "Samson Agonistes." 

Henry Ai-ford Todd, Illinois. 
Belles Lettres Oration. The Public Life of Lord Macaulay 

Frederick Alexander Marquand, New York 
The Mathematical Oration. Hindoo Epic Poetry 

Chandler White Riker, New .Jersey 
The Classical Oration. Party Bondage. 

Charles B. Chapin, New York. 
*The Mental Science Oration. The Ariithesis of Truth. 

Edward Charles Evans, Pennsylvania. 
Oration. The Influence of the Saracens on the Revival of Learning. 

Brodie Jackman Crawford, Pennsylvania. 
Oration. The Dogmatism of Rationalists. 

Sylvester Woodbridge Beach. Maryland. 

Oration. Preparation, the Index of Achievement. 

John Pollock Brown, New York. 
Oration. Toleration. 

Robert Dick Wilson, Pennsylvania. 
Oration. Gothic Architecture 

George Black Stewart, Ohio. 
Oration. The Ottoman Empire 

Harris G Rice, Pennsylva nia. 
*Oration. Art-Culture. 

Hiram Philetus Hamilton. New York 
Oration. The Influence of Wealth on National Character. 

Henry Lewis Harrison New Jersey. 
*Oration. Douglas Jerrold 

Harris Rogers Schekck, Pennsylvania. 
*Oration. Literature, the Solace of Leisure. 

Samuel Graham Wilson, Pennsylvania. 
•Oration Inspiration m Poet and Peasant. 

William James McKittrick, New York. 
Oration " A Way Foreshadowed is not a Way Made." 

Edward Dewis Lyon, New Jersey. 

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Oration. Cavour 

Hakry Edgar Davis, District of Columbia. 
Oration. Failure an Element of Success. 

C0LLIN.S Denny, Virginia. 
*Oration. The Eloquence of Desolation. 

William Hoppock Woolverton, New Jersey. 
*Oration. Scholarship. 

Cornelius Cuyler Gregory, Pennsylvania. 
*Oration. Ultramontanism in America. 

Samuel Cbaig Cowart, New Jersey. 
Oration. Robert E. Lee. 

Robert Wilkinson Johnson, Maryland. 
*Oration. Edward, the Black Prince. 

Richard Arthur Edwards, Illinois. 
*Oration. The Necessity of Progress. 

Thomas Ireland Elliott, Maryland. 
*Oration. The Power of SelfSacrifice. 

John Fletcher Duffield, New Jersey. 
*Oration. The Winning Force. 

George Burnam Martin. New York. 
*Oration. The Social Status of Today. 

"William Allan Cleland, Wisconsin. 
*Oration. The Triumph of Phidias. 

James Morrison Barklky, North Carolina. 
Oration. The Heroic in Missionary Character. 

Walter Lowrie, New York. 
Oration. Japan, Paet and Present. 

Hikoichi Orita. Japan. 

School of Science. 

Oration. The Modern Theory of Force. 

Howard Russell Butler, New York. 

*Exoii8ED r 

Intermission of Fifteen Minutes. 

i><r-crsic. 

The Master's Oration. 

Henry J Van Dyke, Jun., Class of 1873, New York. 



ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES. 

CONFERRING OF DEGREES. 

WiLLUM Brenton Gbeene, Jr.. Rhode Island 

The Valedictory Oration. 

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Order of Procession. 



1. The Band. 

2. The Undergraduates. 

Juniors, 

Sophomores. 

Freshmen. 

3 His Excellency, the Governor 

4. President McCosh and Ex-Presidcnt Maclean. 

5. The Trustees. 

6. The Faculty 

7. Gentlemen having Platform Tickets. 

8. The Senior Class. 

9. Candidates for the Master's Degree. 

10. The Alumni of the College of New Jersey 

11. The Alumni of other Institutions. 

12. Citizens and Strangers. 



CHIEF MARSHAL 
SPENCER TRASK, A.M., CLASS OF 1866. 
ASSISTANT MARSHALS: 

Bayard Henry, '76. H. S. S. Smith, '78, S. S. 

J D. O'Neill, '77. W. Earle Dodge, '79. 

USHERS FOR COMMENCEMENT : 

G. W. Browtj, '77. H. Marquand, '78. 

R. H. Lynde, '77. R. J. A. Greene, '78. 

H. B. Kaufman, '77. J. B. Townsend, '78. 

F. Hartley, '77 W. D. Van Dyke, '78. 

M. T. Pyne, '77. Samuel Alexander, 79. 

H. F. OsBORN, '77. James B. Lord, '79. 

A. J. McCosH. "77. A. L. Dennis, Jr., '79. 



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'76 CLA^SS ODE. 



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3 Crashed may the roses lie. 

Broken the harp-strings be ; 
Never their charms may die, 
Stored in memory. 
Then pledge a health to Memory fair, 
Onr class, Old Nassau's sacred air. 
While heaven bends low with mystic sign 
To hallow days lang syne. 



4 Farewell ! yet part with smiles, 
Hope streams thro' future years, 
Star-like, whose light beguiles 
Life of its fears. 
Nor dreams, nor ease, may lure the soul, 
Through worthy toil we win the goal. 
Clixssmates, your bays with ivy mix — 
Loner life to Seventv-six. 



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THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

At Headquarters on Friday, June 9, 19 16, twenty-four of 
the Class had put in an appearance, an unprecedented num- 
ber on the first day of a Reunion, more than half of the 
forty-two who Avere in Princeton during Commencement 
week. President Bonner had arrived three days before, and 
31 University Place, with its abundant decorations, within 
and without, of orange and black and American flags fur- 
nished abundant evidence that he had not been idle. Din- 
ner was served at Headquarters Friday evening when there 
were gathered about the table Bonner, Barkley, Davis, Dres- 
ser, Dunning, Harrison, M. N. Johnson, Kaufman, Macky, 
Milburn, Patterson, Rice, E. P. Robinson, J. A. L. Smith, 
Taylor, Walker, Wardlaw and R. D. Wilson. Later ar- 
rivals were Beach, H. R. Butler, W. A. Butler, Henry, E. 
D. Lyon and Woods. In the number were two or three 
who had never attended a Class gathering since graduation 
and one who had not been back for thirty-seven years. A 
few introductions were necessary but there was no hiatus 
in conversation at any time. 

On Saturday Ball, O. B. Brown, Chambers, Cowart, C. C. 
Fulton, Holden, Lytle, Russell, Stewart, Todd, Van Lennep, 
and Weart arrived and at luncheon there were added wives 
and sons and daughters and daughters-in-law, a grandson, 
and friends. A larger number would have come had not 
the weather been so unpropitious. Bonner had invited 
President and Mrs. Hibben to lunch with us, and President 
Hibben called to express his regret that he and Mrs. Hib- 
ben were unable to come on account of other engagements, 

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while Mrs. Hibben sent some beautiful flowers, with her 
hope that we would have a happy Reunion. 

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday there was rain and an 
overcoat was not uncomfortable. Fortunately it did not 
rain Saturday afternoon and the Yale-Princeton baseball 
game was played, resulting in a victory for Princeton by a 
score of 7 to 5. Only once has Yale won at a '76 Reunion. 
'Seventy-six and '81 combined in hiring a band of fifty 
school-boys from Public School No. 21 of New York City, 
and at 1.30 the Class of '81 appeared at our Headquarters 
to escort "76 to the front campus, whence the parade to the 
University Field was to start. Led by the graduating class 
the procession marched in the order of juniority until the 
entrance to the field was reached by the Class of 1916 when 
the whole line halted and parted to form a lane through 
which the rear of the procession passed, followed by the 
classes in the order of seniority, circled about the Field and 
took the seats reserved for them. After the game the classes 
romped, marched and intermarched about the Field, pro- 
ducing a remarkably picturesque kaleidoscopic eft'ect owing 
to the bright colors of the costumes. Yale had won the first 
game of the series by 5 to 2, Princeton took this 7 to 5 and 
also the third at Newark on June 14 by i to o. 

Many of the Class heard President Hibben's baccalaureate 
sermon on moral preparedness, "Patriotism is not my land 
against all others, but my land for all others," and after it 
attended a meeting in Marquand Chapel addressed by Mr. 
Carter, Harvard '00, who was seeking volunteers to work 
under the International Y. M. C. A. in Mesopotamia. Weir 
Stewart '15, son of George B. Stewart '76, was one of the 
first to offer himself. After luncheon Mr. Carter called 
at Headquarters in company with the Secretary of the Uni- 
versity and told still more about the work among the people 
east of Suez. 

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vvliile Mrs. Hibben sent some beautiful flower?, with her 
hope that we would Imve a happy Reunion. „ 

On Friday, Saturday and Sffnday there was rain and an 

o\'crcrgit was not uncomfortable. Fortunately it did not 

rain ^turday afternoon and the Jifale- Princeton baseball 

I ^ L |gj5,|is played, resulting <jp a victory for Princeton by a 

^a Ssei§suy:i 7 to S- Only once nas Yale won at a '76 Reunion. 

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WH^me5u!i;i*2i--^i^ and '81 combined ir^hiring a band of fifty 
.>fji>:4,-y'?j£;iil>.^'^ from Pubhc School No. 21 of New York City, 
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to escort '76 to the front cfBinpus, wj^ence the parade to the 
University Field was to start. Led Dy the graduating class 
the jSrocession marched in the order of juniority until %e 
V i^r2P?ice to the field was reached by the Class of 1916 when 
^ -^ h'liole line halted iJid parted^o form a lane through 
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■ia.sscTrn the order of semority^ circled about the Field and 
Sw*r?^gfi^seats reserved for them. After the game the classes 
romped, marched ando/ntermarch^ abftit the Field, pro- 
ducing a remarkably picturesque kaleidoscopic effect owirig 
:o ti"^ lyight colors of the costumes. Yale had won the first 
og :7.'!iiS i>| the series by S to 2, PrincetonSlDok thi< - ir, ; and 
S^ H^©'2.|ii'^third at Newauk on Jttfie 14 by i to o. 

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s « ? ^ a -rilsskof the Class heard President Hibben's baccaiaurcate 
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itteiiHeS a meeting in Marquand Chapel addressed by Mr. 

Carter, Harvard '00, wh§ was seeking volunteers to work 

under the International Y. M. Ci, .V. irr Mesopotamia. Weir 

^tewai-l '15, son of George B. Stewart '76, was one of the 

Iv^i^ offer himself. Afljgr luncheon Mr. Caj^ter called 

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A religious service Sunday evening has become an im- 
portant event at a '76 Reunion, and at eight o'clock "Jim" 
Barkley opened this year's with prayer and a few appro- 
priate remarks, after which for over two hours without 
cessation hymns, addresses, prayers followed one another, 
until all present had spoken, bearing testimony to the need 
and the value of a Christian faith and to the reality of the 
influence of the Holy Spirit in their lives. This certainly 
was the most remarkable prayer-meeting '76 ever exper- 
ienced, and if one could have been present at no other part 
of the Reunion he would have been abundantly compen- 
sated by this. One can but hope that other classes will 
adopt so helpful a custom. Many do hold memorial ser- 
vices, but they are not marked by the same religious atmo- 
sphere and personal touch. 

Monday brought Arthur Conger, Henderson, Lott, Per- 
rine and Woolverton. In the early afternoon the Class was 
photographed on the Library steps, then a number went to 
the Graduate College to hear a recital on the organ recently 
erected in Procter Hall, the gift of Mr. Henry C. Frick. 
After it Howard Butler and Mrs. Butler tendered the Class 
a reception at their home, 107 Library Place, and Howard 
showed us some of his paintings — portraits, marines and 
landscapes. Through the kindness of Bayard Henry and 
M. Taylor Pyne '']'] several of the Class were given an 
automobile ride about Carnegie Lake after the reception. 

The thoughtful courtesy of "Bob" Wilson and "E." Lyon 
in furnishing the flowers that graced the tables at Head- 
quarters was heartily appreciated. 

Shortly before eight o'clock Monday evening these thirty- 
nine gathered around the board for our Class Dinner, our 
honorary member, George Goldie, being with us : Ball, 
Barkley, Beach, Bonner, O. B. Brown, H. R. Butler, W. A. 
Butler, Chambers, A. B. Conger, Cowart, Davis, Dresser, 

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C. C. Fulton, Harrison, Henderson, Henry, Holden, M. N. 
Johnson, Kaufman, Lott, E. D. Lyon, Lytle, Macky, Mil- 
burn, Patterson, Perrine, Rice, E. P. Robinson, Russell, 
J. A. L. Smith, Taylor, Todd, Van Lennep, Wardlaw, 
Walker, Weart, Woods, Woolverton and George Goldie. 
This mciui was then discussed: 

"The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed." 
- — Holmes. 

"Let's eat and drink and fill without a question of indi- 
gestion." — Harris. 

Grapefruit Cocktail 
"A delicious citrus from the Spanish Main." — Irzvin. 

Chicken Soup a la Turque 
"Chicken soup, made fine, at this time of the year 

All others doth put in the shade. 
When it in the cups at our feast doth appear, 
The boys vote it the best ever made." 

— D. V. Perrine. 

Radishes Olives Celery 

"A valuable variety of variously variegated vegetables." 
—Mitchell. 

Braised Halibut with Watercress 
"The fisherman sad, the toilsome day had 

In vain for the halibut sought ; 
But when the fish heard for '76 he'd be served 
He insisted on just being caught." 

— W. T. Kaufman. 

Saratoga Chips 
"Let the chips fall where they may." — Rorer. 

Roast Duckling Apple Sauce 

"This little duck had very poor luck, 

When from pond to shore he posted. 
For the cook full soon his feathers did pluck, 
And now we have him roasted." 

— IV. B. Van Lennep. 

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Browned Sweet Potatoes Brussel Sprouts 

"Cheeks brown as the oak leaves." — Longfellow. 
"They odors from them threw around." — Spenser. 

Punch a la Lalla Rookh 
"The shape is pleasing, though the stuff is ice." — Holmes. 

Tenderloin Mushroom Sauce 

"For 'Roast Beef of Old England' her loyal sons boast, 

And her poets their verses bring; 
But we have a finer and far better toast. 

For our grand Tenderloin we sing."^ — E. D. Lyon. 

Salad Asparagus Vinaigrette 
"In a salad we see, 
Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltness agree." — Goldsmith. 

Neapolitan Ice Cream 

"A delicious compote like snow congealed." — Savron. 

Assorted Cakes 

"Feast of nectar'd sweets." — Milton. 

Pineapple and Pimento Cheese 

"Curds and cream, the flower of country fare." — Dryden. 

Toasted Crackers 

"With toast embrowned." — Wharton. 

Demi Tasse 

"This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth 

digestion." — Bacon. 

Cigars 

"The man who smokes thinks like a sage.'' — Bulwer- 
Lytton. 

"This song of mine is a song of the vine. 

Though it seems to read like a fable ; 
For the bright sparkling wine of the olden time 
Is supplanted by grapejuice, sable." 

— Joseplms Daniels. 
"At a dinner so various — at such a repast, 
Who'd not be a glutton and stick to the last." 

— Goldsmith. 
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With the serving of coffee President Bonner announced 
that there would be a brief business meeting. The treas- 
urer's report was read, Class officers reelected, and Russell 
was chosen to fill the place on the Executive Committee 
made vacant by the death of Charlie Smith. It was moved, 
seconded and carried that the secretary convey to Mrs. 
Hibben the thanks of the Class for the flowers she sent on 
Saturday and for her good wishes. 

Toastmaster Russell then took charge, recited these lines, 
"Some won the world's homage ; their names we hold dear ; 
But Friendship, not Fame, is the countersign here." 

— Holmes. 

"I love everything that's old. Old friends."- — Goldsmith. 

and gracefully introduced President Bonner, asking him to 

respond to Alma Mater 

"We'll all unite to shout and sing 

Long life to Old Nassau." — Carm. Princ. 

Bonner spoke on the value of Class Spirit and deprecated 
any influence on the part of the College Administration 
that opposed it ; the more loyal a man is to his Class the 
more loyal he is to his college and to his country. Illustra- 
tions of it were the Carnegie Lake, which 'yG claims since 
it came through the efforts of the Butler brothers, and the 
Graduate College, beautiful for location and sure to exert 
great influence on education in America through the coming 
years. But Reunions are the best part of the curriculum, 
and one can but wonder what the sons of '76 will see here 
forty years hence. 

At this point Barkley broke into the programme to move 
that a vote of thanks be extended to the President and the 
Secretary for the care and labor taken in arranging for the 
comfort of the Class at this Reunion. This was duly sec- 
onded and carried. 

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Classmates Gone Before In Silence 

"Each pearl that leaves the broken strmg 

Is set in friendship's crown above." — Holmes. 

Our Fortieth Birthday, with the quotation 

"Into the harbor she bravely steers, 

Just as she's done for these forty years." — Holmes. 

brought from Davis the statement that last evening's meet- 
ing showed the kind of steering into the harbor we had been 
doing for these forty years. Then he developed the thought 
that the last forty years have done more than any similar 
preceding period to minimize the individual, to make man 
little as against the mass through the development of ma- 
chinery, type-writers, telephones, trolleys, automobiles. 
Corporations were formed, then became trusts, and now the 
Supreme Court has become the medium to tell the world 
what Congress means in its laws in regard to business and 
the chase of mammon. The past forty years have seen the 
greatest funeral on earth, the burial of human privacy 
through the telephone, and now telephone wires are "tap- 
ped." While instructor in law schools in Washington "Jeff" 
said he read deeply in ancient history, endeavoring to dis- 
cover the cause of failure of the civilizations of the past 
and of the present. This he found in the pursuit of mam- 
mon, the minimizing of the individual and the development 
of nationality. But nations will not give account at final 
judgment, the individual must do that. As a nation we are 
striving to do what European nations have been doing, but 
more than preparedness is needed, that is superficial ; we 
must go deeper. What is the objective of civilization? The 
earliest human carvings indicate belief in a hereafter, "the 
worship of unseen powers from a sense of need." Man has 
always believed there is a future life. If there is no fu- 
ture, it is the unique instance of the existence of a function 

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without that which will give it fruition. This line of 
thought came to "]e&" when he was asked to speak, and he 
expressed the hope that we should never get so far from 
truth that we would not be kept true ourselves. 

In speaking to The Old College and the New University 
"Broad and deep the builders laid the foundations." — Ames. 

"Not one look backward, onward still he goes.'' — Pope. 

Bayard Henry said that forty years before our time was 
1832, the period of the stage coach, of travel on horseback, 
of canal building. The college then had two hundred stu- 
dents, one-third of them from the South and that propor- 
tion withdrew at the outbreak of the Civil War. Princeton 
was disrupted. Then came "Jimmie'' McCosh and he made 
Princeton what it is to-day. He saw darkly, but he saw. 
In our day there were four hundred students and ten build- 
ings. Now there are 1600 students and ninety buildings, 
700 acres of land and 300 under water. Then 14 profes- 
sors, now 195 professors and instructors, with a salary roll 
of $401,000. The Alumni have saved it. Great develop- 
ments are coming. We are to have the finest chemical lab- 
oratory in the country. Other gifts are coming. Prince- 
ton will yet be the greatest university in America; it has 
the location, the traditions, it will be to the United States 
what Oxford and Cambridge are to England. 

While Bayard was speaking Dean West '74 came in and 
as Henry finished the Dean was called upon. He began by 
praising the work of George Goldie while instructor at 
Princeton for the good he had done and the influence ex- 
erted morally as well as physically. Then he spoke of Dr. 
McCosh as the center of force from which all good in 
Princeton has come. The Princeton spirit came from him. 
When "J"Timie" was asked what was his test of a good 
professor, he replied "Is he alive?" He was the greatest 

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college president in the United States. The object men 
should have in getting a college education is not the mak- 
ing of a living, but the making of a life. 

For The Absent Classmates 

"Our thoughts are still mingled wherever we meet 
For those we remember and those that we greet." 

— Holmes. 

Lott reminded us of those gone before to whom tribute 
was due, those kept away by their own illness or the ill- 
ness of others, and those detained by circumstances. If 
we forget Princeton and realize our condition, the cure is 
to return to Princeton and meet old friends, and this sug- 
gestion he threw out for those not present to-night. 

'y6, Literary, Poetic, Critical 

"All one's life is music if one touches the notes rightly 
and in time." — Ruskin. 

was responded to by Henderson, who reviewed conditions 
at Princeton in our time and the years following, when it 
seemed that developments were tending towards the creat- 
ing of a technical school instead of training men to live a 
life. Recently, however, a new literary trend has mani- 
fested itself. Not many famous literary men were turned 
out in our time, Van Dyke '73 was one. The Nassau Lit. 
is now much more literary than in '76, it is producing men 
of distinction in prose and is developing an American liter- 
ature. Princeton and '76 had produced a distinguished 
artist, Howard Butler. "Hendy" closed by saying that the 
best thing he got out of Princeton was the fellowship and 
inspiration he derived from the Class. 

William Allen Butler, in speaking to Princeton's Place 
in the Rowing World ("Row, brothers, row, the stream 
runs fast" — Boat Song), said his memory went back to the 
first boat-house at Princeton, built in 1874 by Bonner's 

282 



father. Those were the days of practice and bumping races 
on the canal. The Carnegie Lake gave aquatics a new life 
at Princeton. Dr. Spaeth's wonderful efforts and fine char- 
acter were manifested in the results he had accomplished 
in cutting out all professionalism and making rowing a 
sport for gentlemen. The Class of '87 had given a boat- 
house as its twenty-fifth anniversary gift. The sport at 
Princeton was not expensive, she spending $4,000 to Yale's 
$27,000 and Harvard's $30,000. The Board of Control had 
now voted $5,000 a year for boating. Princeton stands first 
for the intellectual life, but recognizes the necessity for a 
constitutional and physical basis. We have beaten Harvard, 
University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Annapolis, and 
Yale three times. We were beaten by Cornell by a fraction 
of a second. The purchase of the lands for the Lake took 
a long time and much more than was needed had to be 
bought, as, for example, the Gray farm of 103 acres, of 
which but three acres were needed for the Lake. Through 
the generosity of several Princeton men and especially of 
Mrs. William Allen Butler, the mother of William Allen 
and Howard, all debts were finally paid and a large prop- 
erty bordering on the Lake was given to the University. 

Words from the Editor's Sanctum: "The press scatters 
abroad the thrilling thoughts of gifted minds and the glor- 
ious results of careful study." — Henry. 

Ten years age "Yap" Walker had the same theme as to- 
night, as he reminded us when Russell called him. As a 
man, a citizen and an editor he had tried to do his duty, 
he said, never writing what he did not believe to be true 
nor what was prompted by malice or personal feeling. In 
the last forty years the greatest improvements have been 
made in newspaper work; then there was the handpress, 
now there are none in Tennessee. There has been a like 

283 



improvement in the personnel. The papers now favor ac- 
curacy and independent thought. There is a need of think- 
ing men, of honest men, of thoroughly equipped university 
men, men whom people can trust. "Yap" concluded by 
saying that since college days he had made no such friends 
as those of '76 and these had been of great aid to him. 

'76 and the Red Cross: "In man's most dark extremity 
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.'" — Scott. 
brought to his feet Chambers, who said this was the second 
Reunion he had attended since graduation and that the best 
thing he found in Princeton was the Class of '76. The 
spirit of '76 which he then found has constantly increased 
in power in these forty years, a spirit of sympathy, of re- 
membrance, of prayers, an inspiration for which to thank 
God. Chambers said he had never worked with the Red 
Cross but had done much on benevolent lines. In his thirty- 
seven years in Turkey he had passed through famine and 
three periods of massacre. The former seemed the acme 
of human suffering but was exceeded by the massacre of 
1885-6 'Xt Erzroom, when 400 mutilated bodies of Armen- 
ians were brought to the cemetery for burial. In 1909, at 
Adana, in the massacre a man was killed in Chambers' 
arms and 20,000 were driven from the city, hungry, home- 
less, suffering. This surely, he thought, was the worst. 
Then succour came from Heaven, a fund of nearly $100,000 
was given for relief and none died from starvation. But 
these horrors were not to be compared with those of 191 5. 
Men asked Where is God? Whence shall aid come? and 
the answer was not yet found. Meantime Sam Wilson is 
at the head of the relief work for Armenians in the Cau- 
casus. Nor should we forget other '76 men in Asia, Ful- 
ton in Canton and Lowrie who had such thrilling experi- 
ences in the Boxer uprising. 

For the Committee and the Record, "Men, the workers, 

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ever reaping something new" — Tennyson, Harrison gave 
a few incidents regarding men who were unable to attend 
the Reunion, that "Mc" Mann had called him to the tele- 
phone just as this dinner was served to send his love to 
"the boys," express his keen sorrow at his inability to be 
at the feast, and to say that he was rapidly recovering from 
his illness. Ill health also kept Fowler and Pugh away, 
illness in the family accounted for the absence of Chapin 
and R. Wilson, and Stewart had an engagement to attend 
a conference at Maryville, Tenn., and preach the opening 
sermon. 

Weart responded to 76 in the Professions, "I hold every 
man a debtor to his profession" — Bacon, and reminded us 
that "professions" had a meaning wider than that which 
embraces merely law, medicine and theology, for the dic- 
tionary adds that the word means the use of one's ability 
for the benefit of others and not solely for one's aggrandize- 
ment. The record of the Class of '76 illustrates this wider 
meaning. 

The Ladies 

"She is beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd ; 

She is a woman, therefore to be won." — Shakespeare. 

In speaking to this toast Ball remarked that he had twice 
before responded to this theme and he was now getting his 
"third cup of cofl:'ee." Then reading from the book of Gen- 
esis he proved from it that therein for the first and the last 
time woman took the second place, but Eve did not keep it 
long for she passed it with the apple to Adam with momen- 
tous results, among them the introduction of the custom of 
putting on clothes. Woman rocks the cradle and rules the 
world, but our women have done still more for they have 
lighted us along the way and inspired us to lead clean lives 
and put the spiritual above the material. 

Bonner now called upon George Goldie, our honorary and 

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honored member, for some remarks. By way of apology 
George began by saying that a call from the Class of '76 
would make a dead man speak. He came to Princeton 
seven years before '76 did, when the institution scarcely 
thought a man had a physique. Then came the gymnasium, 
the gift, in part, of Mr. Robert Bonner, and when it was to 
be formally opened in the fall of 1870, Dr. McCosh asked 
Mr. Goldie what he was going to talk about. Mr. Bonner 
spoke up, "When you have said all you have to say, don't 
hem and haw but stop." George preferred to show what 
he could do with the gymnastic apparatus to making a 
speech, and when the ceremonies were over one of the Trus- 
tees complimented him on his exhibition and told him his 
salary would be raised. Mr. Goldie believed that during 
the first two years in college all students should be required 
to take certain prescribed exercises, and not be allowed to 
make selections. If boys were taken too young and put 
into special courses of training, it meant a training down 
and not up. All-round development exercises should come 
in the first years. 

When George concluded Bonner called for three cheers 
for him, which were given with a will. 

"Yap" here claimed the floor to say that under Mr. Gol- 
die's training he had taken the second prize in gymnastics 
in senior year, and that Mr. Goldie had to-day told him 
that when he was seventy years old he had done the giant 
swing, backward and forward, the back and front somer- 
sault, back and front horizontal, and put up the iio-lb dumb- 
bell. 

Then "Jim" Barkley told us how he acquired the right to 
wear the badges of the Confederate Veterans and the Grand 
Army of the Potomac, and exhibited the regalia. 



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"Good was the dinner, better was the talk." — Holmes. 

"The feast of reason and the flow of soul." — Pope. 
"Welcome ever smiles, and Farewell goes out singing." 

— Shakespeare. 
"God be with you till we meet again." — Song. 

Tuesday morning was all that could be desired as regards 
weather at Princeton, but the lure of business called some 
away early. A few attended the Commencement Exercises, 
especially the conferring of degrees, for then Rolla Wells 
received the honorary degree of Master of Arts. 

At one o'clock the Alumni Luncheon was served in the 
gymnasium and the Class was well represented. The 
speeches were few in number but well worth hearing. Re- 
turning to Headquarters we found the decorations removed, 
the house in order and most of the men gone. But the happy 
recollections remain, and what the Reunion meant to those 
who enjoyed it cannot be better indicated than by the chron- 
icling of some expressions that were let fall: "Enjoyed every 
hour in old Princeton. It was the trip of my life. Such a 
meeting brings fresh hope to the heart and makes life look 
larger and richer in every way." "The 1916 Reunion was 
the best ever. The spirit of brotherhood was delightful. I 
never had a happier time in my life." "I believe there was 
never a Reunion like our last and we'll carry its influence 
with us for many a day." "I shall never be able to tell how 
much I enjoyed the Reunion." "I am gratified beyond ex- 
pression that I w^as privileged to enjoy it. There can be 
nothing so delightful this side the other land, unless it be 
another '76 Reunion." 



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TREASURER'S REPORT 

Receipts 

191 1 Balance from Fund for Reunion of 191 1 .... $97.13 

Balance from Russell Cup Fund 5i-0O 

Subscriptions for Record of 191 1 186.06 

1912 Subscriptions for Record and for deficit 343-25 

1914 For flowers for Mrs. Goldie's funeral i3-00 

191 5 Contributed to send Pictorial Review to the 

Class 19.00 

From R. E. Bonner on account of Reunion 

of 191 1 34-00 

From R. E. Bonner on account of Alumni 

Weekly 7.00 

$750.44 
Disbtirsenaents 

1910 December 31, deficit $8.64 

191 1 Circulars, postage, stationery, exchange, etc. 30.42 

1912 Record of 191 1, Princeton Publishing Co.. . . 573.03 
Postage, express, exchange for Records 9.46 

19 1 3 Grafton Press for two 1906 Records 2.00 

Postage, stationery, exchange 4.73 

19 14 Circulars, postage, exchange II-95 

Flowers for Mrs. Goldie's funeral 10.78 

191 5 100 Historical Number of Princeton Pictorial 20.00 

Circulars, postage, envelopes, exchange 28.30 

December 31, Balance on hand 5i-i3 

$750.44 
In 1912, 1913, and 1914 circulars and postage were con- 
tributed by W. T. Kaufman to the value of $22.30. 



THE CLASS OF 76 MEMORIAL 
PRIZE DEBATE 

At the Class Reunion in 1886, this prize was estabhshed, 
under the following regulations : The debate should be held 
on Washington's Birthday of each year ; there should be 
four contestants, one from each class; the subject debated 
should be one of current interest in American politics. It 
was further arranged that the Professor of Political Econ- 
omy should each year select the subject and announce it at 
least two months previous to the time of the debate; that 
the Faculty should appoint three men to act as judges and 
award the prize. 

Subscriptions were obtained and the money was invested, 
from the income of which $50 was paid each year to the 
winner in debate. In 1891, the Class voted to increase the 
prize to $100, but sufficient money was not secured for this 
until 1895, since which time the prize awarded has been 
$100, or the income derived from the securities held by the 
University for the purpose. 

The total subscription amounted to $2,263.01. 

The debate was held in the old chapel on the evening of 
Washington's Birthday until 1895, when the contest was 
transferred to Alexander Hall and held in the morning, 
before the other customary exercises of the day, which are 
given in the gymnasium. 

Originally each debater was allowed twelve minutes for 
his first speech and eight minutes for rebuttal, but of late 
years these have been reduced to nine minutes and five 
minutes respectively. 

Following are the subjects and the names of the prize 
winners since 191 1. 

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igi2 

Resolved, That the United States Government should 
adopt the principle of monopoly control of industry and 
regulate prices in all cases where the monopoly has been 
brought about by the operation of economic law. 

Prize awarded to Paul F. Myers '13. 

1913 
Resolved, That the United States should not exempt her 
coastwise trade from Panama Canal tolls. 

Prize awarded to Paul F. Myers '13, who supported the 
negative. 

1914 
Resolved, That the women of the United States should be 
given the suffrage on equal terms with the men. 
Prize awarded to B. B. Atterbury '16. 

1915 

Resolved, That the best interests of the United States 
demand a prompt and substantial increase of our army and 
navy. 

Prize awarded to J. McL Smith '15, who supported the 
negative. 

1916 

Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system 
of military service modeled after that of Switzerland. 

Prize awarded to Walter H. Johnson '17, who supported 
the affirmative, Honorable Mention to Sydney Donald 
Sherrerd '18. 

1917 

Resolved, That after the present war the United States 
should so far depart from her traditional policies as to par- 
ticipate in the organization of a league of the powers to 
enforce peace. 

Prize awarded to Sydney Donald Sherrerd '18, who sup- 
ported the negative. 

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JAMES W. ALEXANDER '60 
At our vigiiitennial dinner, in 1896, Mr. Alexander came 
in, addressed us, and was made an honorary member of 
the Class and because of this relationship to '76 a brief ref- 
erence to him is not amiss in a '76 Record, Mr. Alexander 
was born at Princeton July 19, 1839, the son of the Rev. 
James W. Alexander '20, a professor of belles lettres at 
Princeton, and grandson of Rev. Archibald Alexander, head 
of the Princeton Theological Seminary. After graduating 
in i860 Mr. Alexander studied law and practiced his profes- 
sion until 1866 when he became Secretary of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society. For nearly forty years he was 
connected with this Society, becoming President in 1899. 
In 1905 he retired, spent a considerable time in travel and 
finally returned to Princeton to reside. On September 21, 
191 5, he died, and after funeral services at Trinity Church, 
Princeton, was buried in the Witherspoon Cemetery. 

For thirty years Mr. Alexander had been a member of 
the Board of Trustees of the University, and Princeton 
had no more loyal son than he. "By inheritance and tram- 
ing Mr. Alexander was distinctively the cultivated gentle- 
man. Endowed with unusual gifts of expression, he was 
for many years recognized as one of the leading speakers of 
New York. To these qualities he added a genius for friend- 
ship. Seldom is it given a man as it was given to Mr. Alex- 
ander to possess so many devoted friends of all ages." 



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THE PRINCETON FACULTY IN 1876 

WITH DATES OF DEATH 

James McCosh, November 16, 1894 
Stephen Alexander, June 25, 1883 
Lyman H. Atwater, February 17, 1883 
Arnold Guyot, February 8, 1884 
John T. Duffield, April 10, 1901 
J. Stillwell Schanck, December 16, 1898 
Henry C. Cameron, October 26, 1906 
Charles W. Shields, August 26, 1904 
William A. Packard, December 2, 1909 
John S. Hart, March 26, 1877 
Joseph Karge, December 29, 1892 
Cyrus F. Brackett, January 29, 191 5 
James O. Murray, March 27, 1899 
Charles McMillan, still living 
Henry B. Cornwall, April i, 19 17 
George Macloskie, still living 
Theodore W. Hunt, still living 
S. G. Peabody, date unknown 
Fuller P. Dalrymple, still living 
Eli Marsh Turner, March i, 1908 
Alfred H. Fahnestock, February 29, 1916 
John Laird, November, 1889 

DR. BRACKETT 
Cyrus Fogg Brackett, Emeritus Professor of Physics, 
was born at Parsonfield, Me., June 25, 1833. He was grad- 
uated at Bowdoin in 1859 and received the degree of M.D. 

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in 1863. Other degrees were LL.D. from Lafayette College 
in 1883, from Bowdoin in 1892, and from Princeton in 
1909; also A.M. from Princeton in 1896. He was instruc- 
tor in Chemistry in Bowdoin in 1863, Professor 1864 to 
1873 ; Professor of Physics at Princeton 1873 to 1908, and 
since then Professor Emeritus. He was a member of the 
American Philosophical Society, the American Physical So- 
ciety, $. B. K., A. K.E., etc. 

An able member of the local and State Boards of Health, 
he was President of the latter from 1888 to 1908, also Pres'i- 
dent of the New Jersey Sanitary Commission for one year 
and for many years Chairman of the University Infirmary 
Committee. After his retirement he passed much time in 
the laboratory engaged in research which his busy years 
had not permitted. He died January 29, 191 5. 

A sentence from the prayer offered by President Hibben 
at Professor Brackett's funeral is a fitting close to this l^rief 
sketch. "We praise Thy name that as he learned the secrets 
of nature there were revealed to him also intimations of 
nature's God and that in the midst of his studies of the 
things seen and temporal he maintained a simplicity of be- 
lief in the things unseen and eternal, and was not ashamed 
to confess the faith of Christ crucified before his fellow- 
men." [From Alumni Weekly.] 

PROFESSOR CORNWALL 
Henry Bedinger Cornwall, Professor Emeritus of Chem- 
istry and Mineralogy, died at his home in Princeton on 
April I, 191 7, of pneumonia. Born at Southport, Conn., 
July 29, 1844, he received the A.B. degree at Columbia in 
1864, entered the School of Mines, and in 1867 received the 
degrees A.A^l. and E.M. In 1866 he went to Europe and 
spent two years at the Royal Mining Academy at Freiberg, 
Saxony, returning in 1868 to Columbia as assistant in min- 

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President Hibben 



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eralogy and metallurgy, whence in 1873 ^""^ was called to 
Princeton as Professor of Applied Chemistry and Miner- 
alogy. He retired in 19 10, having been an active member 
of the Princeton Faculty for thirty-seven years. To his 
efforts mainly were due the erection and equipment of the 
present chemical laboratory by the trustees of the John C. 
Green estate. Princeton conferred on him the honorary 
degree of A.M. in 1896, and Columbia that of Ph.D. in 1888. 

The applications of the science of chemistry to the solu- 
tion of industrial problems afforded him keen delight and 
his work was always of the most careful kind. The exami- 
nation of waters, milk, fats, oils, drugs, beers, paints and 
varnishes, the many poison cases he successfully handled, 
his study of cements and his solution of some problems 
relating to the rubber industry, all bear witness to his ac- 
tivity in the domain of applied chemistry. Besides being a 
chemist he was a fine mineralogist and geologist. 

A great reader and a fine linguist, he was familiar with 
most of the great English, French and German writers, he 
spoke German and Spanish and was no mean Latin scholar. 
With his passing the University loses a staunch supporter 
and his colleagues a true and loyal friend. 

[From Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 25, 1917.] 

FACULTY NOTES 

Rev. Theodore W. Hunt, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of 
English, is still in active service. 

George Macloskie, D.Sc, LL.D., is Professor of Chem- 
istry and Mineralogy, Emeritus. 

Charles McMillan, A.M., C.E., is Professor of Civil En- 
gineering, Emeritus. 

Henry Nevius Van Dyke died December 23, 191 1, on a 
street car in New York City, from acute indigestion. He 

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had been living in that city after retirement from the office 
of Registrar. He was born in 1853 in Princeton, graduated 
in the Class of 1872, studied at Princeton Seminary for a 
year and then accepted the position of Registrar of the 
college, holding it until his retirement on full salary in 
1910. Declining health had caused him to sever his offi- 
cial connection with the University. He was married in 
1880 to Anna Rogers of Frenchtown, N. ]., who with two 
sons survives him. Mr. Van Dyke was an authority on 
chess and had written many articles on that subject. 

Rev. Fuller P. Dalrymple is living at Dover, N. J., with- 
out charge. 

Charles Greene Rockwood, Jr., Professor Emeritus of 
Mathematics, died at Caldwell, N. J., July 2, 1913, of gen- 
eral sclerosis. Born in New York City, January 11, 1843, 
he was graduated at Yale in 1864, taught at the Newark, 
N. J., Academy, then became Professor of Mathematics and 
Natural Philosophy at Bowdoin College, whence he went 
to Rutgers and held the same chair from 1874 to 1877, and 
in 1877 was called to Princeton, serving for twenty-eight 
years, when he was made Emeritus. Pie was an Elder in the 
First Presbyterian Church of Princeton and Secretary of 
his class at Yale. 

Rev. Alfred Hamilton Fahnestock, D.D., '68, pastor of 
the First Ward Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y., since 
his ordination in 1875, died February 29, 1916. He was 
born in 1842 and was graduated from Princeton Seminary 
in 1 87 1. He was stricken with paralysis while returning 
from a meeting of Presbytery, and died soon after being 
taken home. He is survived by Mrs. Fahnestock, two 
daughters and a son. Prof. Ernest Fahnestock of Glovers- 
ville. New York. 



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KARL LANGLOTZ 

Karl Langlotz, composer of the music for "Old Nassau," 
died at his home in Trenton on Thanksgiving Day, Novem- 
ber 25, 1915, and was buried at Princeton two days later. 
The last survivor of President MacLean's faculty he had 
lived in Trenton for over forty years and had taught music 
there. He was born in Germany in 1834, the son of a musi- 



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cian at the Court of Saxe-Meiningen, learned the violin as 
a boy and at seventeen was sent to Weimar, where he con- 
tinued his music under Liszt and Joachim. At the age of 
nineteen he came to America and for two years taught 
music in Philadelphia. In 1856 he came to Princeton as a 
private teacher of music and he also had a fencing class. 

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In 1857 he was appointed instructor in German in the col- 
lege and so continued for eleven years. He played the 
chapel organ and organized "The Nassau Maennerchor," 
composed of students who gave concerts in the town and 
vicinity. 

In 1859 the Lit. offered a prize for a college song and 
this was won by Harlan Page Peck '62 with "Old Nassau." 
It was sung at first to the air of "Auld Lang Syne," but 
this was unsuitable and Mr. Langlotz was asked to com- 
pose a setting for it. After persistent urging he produced 
the air that has become so famous. His last years were 
rendered comfortable and free from anxious care by aid 
given by a few Princeton graduates who were conversant 
with his circumstances. 



THE PRIZE GYMNASTS OF 1870 
"The gymnasium donated by Messrs. Bonner and Mar- 
quand to Princeton Avas completed during our senior year 
and we had the benefit of it for about six months. A num- 
ber of our men took special interest in the work of the 
gymnasium, and this was increased to a generous rivalry 
when it was announced that Mrs. Thompson had offered 
prizes for a contest just before Commencement. The 
prizes consisted of an amethyst ring and badge for the best 
general gymnast and a badge for fancy and heavy gym- 
nasts, respectively. The contest took place under the very 
best auspices with the usual great crowd of visitors from 
out of town and Princeton, also band from New York, 
gymnasium gaily decorated, three experts in gymnastics, 

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TosKPH T. Kellkv 



Charles T. Parker 



John L. Caldwell 



friends of George Goldie, as judges; Mrs. Thompson, sup- 
ported by Dr. McCosh, presented the prizes at the close. 
The contest was brilhantly conducted and the first prize 
was awarded to John L. Caldwell, prize for heavy gym- 
nastics to Charlie Parker and for light gymnastics to "Jai'' 
Kelly. Thus was initiated that long series of athletic 

CONTESTS WHICH HAVE CONTINUED TO BE SO MUCH OF A 

feature IN Princeton life and the first prizes given 

TO athletes." 

[Extract from a letter of Rev. Joseph T. Kelly, D.D., in 
the Class of '70 191 5 Record. The Mr. Parker mentioned 
in it was a brother of Fred. Parker 'yS.] 



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UNIVERSITY NOTES 

Since 191 1 the following games with Harvard and Yale 
have been played. 

Baseball 





Princeton 


Yale 




Princeton 


Yale 


I9I2 


I 


6 


1915 


2 


I 




4 


2 




I 


2 




19 


6 




3 


4 


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3 


4 


1916 


2 


5 




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7 


5 • 




4 


5 




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3 


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3 











Princeton Harvard 




Princeton 


Harvard 


I9I2 


5 


I 


1915 


2 


4 


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7 







3 


I9I4 


I 


4 




3 


8 








1916 


5 
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5 






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ALL 








Princeton Harvard 




Princeton 


Yale 


I9I2 


6 


16 


I912 


6 


6 


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3 


T913 


3 


3 


I9I4 





20 


I9I4 


14 


19 


1915 


6 


10 


1915 


7 


13 


I9I6 





3 


1916 





10 



Athletic contests were abandoned in 191 7 on account of 
the war. 



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THE TRIANGULAR DEBATE 

In 1912 Princeton won from both Harvard and Yale. 

In 1913 Princeton won from Yale at New Haven, Har- 
vard from Princeton at Princeton and from Yale at Cam- 
bridge. 

In 1914 Princeton defeated Yale at Princeton, Yale de- 
feated Harvard at New Haven, Harvard defeated Prince- 
ton at Cambridge. The subject debated was Woman Suf- 
frage and the negative won in each debate. 

In 191 5 Princeton lost to Yale and Harvard, Yale won 
from both. The subject was that the best interests of the 
United States demand a prompt and substantial increase 
in our Army and Navy. 

In 19 16 Princeton won from both Yale and Harvard on 
Preparedness, that the United States should adopt a system 
of compulsory military service modeled after that of Swit- 
zerland. 

In 191 7 Princeton won from Harvard at Princeton, Yale 
from Princeton at New Haven, and Harvard from Yale at 
Cambridge. The negative triumphed in each debate on the 
proposal that after the present war the United States should 
participate in the organization of a league to enforce peace. 

THE NEW DINING HALLS 
The new Dining Halls occupy the site of the old Uni- 
versity Hall on the corner of Nassau Street and University 
Place, and toward their construction Mrs. Russell Sage of- 
fered to give $250,000, provided a like sum was raised. 
This was accomplished by students, alumni and friends, and 
of the amount members of the Class of '76 contributed 
$3,600. 



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ADDRESSES 

Where two addresses are given, the first is the business, 
the second the home address. Please notify the Secretary 
of any change. 

Dudley S. Anness, 518 A Halsey St., Brooklyn, New York 

Hon. J. Frank Ball, 205 Equitable Building; 1019 Park 
Place, Wilmington, Del. 

Rev. James M. Barkley, D.D., no Forest Avenue, West; 
309 Putnam Avenue, West, Detroit, Mich. 

Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, 26 Library Place, Princeton, N. J. 

Robert Edwin Bonner, 30 East 42nd St., New York City; 
Summer, Stockbridge, Mass. 

Hon. Harrington Brown, Federal Building; 3975 Vermont 
Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. 

John P. Brown, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City; 16 Bel- 
mont Terrace, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Hon. Orin Britt Brown, City National Bank Building; 115 
West Second St., Dayton, Ohio 

Howard Russell Butler, 107 Library Place, Princeton, N. J. 

William Allen Butler, 54 Wall Street; 30 East 72d Street, 
New York City. 

Rev. Arthur B. Chaffee, D.D., 222 N. Wabash Ave.; 1053 
Foster Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Rev. William N. Chambers, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, 
Mass., in care of A. B. C. F. M. 

Rev. Charles B. Chapin, D.D., 530 Seneca St., South Beth- 
lehem, Pa. 

Rev. Harrison Clarke, 1250 Acoma St., Denver, Colo. 

Rev. Arthur B. Conger, Villa Nova, Pa. 

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John Conger, Room 1605, 27 William St., New York City 

Isaac W. Cooley, 1326 Ogden St.; 3939 Powelton Ave., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hon. Alfred C. Coursen, "Seaward," SaHsbury, Md. 

Bryant O. Cowan, 401 Ninth St., Santa Monica, Cal. 

Samuel C. Cowart, Freehold, N. J. 

Hon. Clarence Cuningham, Waterloo, Laurens Co., S. C. 

Hon. Henry E. Davis, LL.D., Wilkins Building; 1931 Nine- 
teenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Bishop Collins Denny, 1619 Park Ave., Richmond, Va. 

Rev. Elliott L. Dresser, 306 College Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. 

Frank Dunning, Valley Home, Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. 

R. A. Edwards, Peru, Ind. 

E. S. Ely, 44 Pine St. ; 189 Claremont Ave., New York City 

Charles D. Fowler, The Rochambeau, Washington, D. C. 

Rev. Albert A. Fulton, D.D., Canton, China 

Cecil C. Fulton, 102 South Bradford St., Dover, Del. 

Alexander B. Gillespie, Rock River, Wyo. 

Wm. W. Green, 120 Broadway, New York City; Engle- 
wood, N. J. 

Rev. Prof. Wm. Brenton ' Greene, Jr., D.D., 60 Stockton 
St., Princeton, N. J. 

Rev. Robert Wilson Hamilton, The Fort Manse, Lisburn, 
County, Antrim, Ireland 

Henry L. Harrison, 51 East 61 st St.; lOi East 92nd St., 
New York City 

W. J. Henderson, Editorial Rooms, New York "Sun" ; 125 
West 44th St., New York City 

Hon. Bayard Henry, 2231-42 Land Title Building, Phila- 
delphia ; West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Pa. 

Edward P. Holden, Mutual Life Insurance Co., 34 Nassau 
St., New York City; Madison, N. J. 

Hon. James C. Jenkins, 572 West 141st St., New York City 



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Major Richard W. Johnson, M.D., U.S.A., 1546 South St. 

Andrews Place, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Robert W. Johnson, M.D., loi West Franklin St., Balti- 
more, Md. 
David B. Jones, 11 16 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
Thomas D. Jones, 11 16 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
Wm. T. Kaufman, 62 Cedar St., New York City; 531 West 

Seventh St., Plainfield, N. J. 
Rev. Washington R. Laird, Ph.D., 317 West Miner St., 

West Chester, Pa. 
Rev. Robert Todd Liston, Montevallo, Ala. 
Rev. J. Walter Lowrie, D.D., 18 Peking Road, Shanghai, 

China 
Edward D. Lyon, Ph.D., University Club, New York City 
John G. Lyon, 810 Commonwealth Building; Kenmawr 

Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Richard R. Lytle, M.D., 160 Claremont Ave., New York City 
John G. Macky, 1643 Haddon Ave., Camden, N. J. ; 3614 

Hamilton St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
J. M. Mann, 597 Fifth Ave., New York City; 18 Austin 

Place, Bloomfield, N. J. 
W. B. McKoy, 14 Masonic Temple ; 402 South Third St., 

Wilmington, N. C. 
Rev. Page Milburn, Silver Spring, Md. 
John G. Miller, Dallas, Texas 
John Mills, Jr., 
Hon. Hikoichi Orita, Kawaramachi Hirokoji Sagaru, Kyoto, 

Japan. 
Robert W. Patterson, 6016 Howe Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
William Pearson, 2 North Court St. ; 27 South Front St., 

Harrisburg, Pa. 
David Vanderveer Perrine, 55 West Main St., Freehold, 

N. J. 

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Martin Ralph, 40 Flushing Ave., Jamaica, Long Island, 

N. Y. 
Rev. Harris G. Rice, Osborn, Ohio. 
Hon. Chandler W. Riker, 164 Market Street; 422 Mt. 

Prospect Ave., Newark, N. J. 
Alden K. Riley, 213 Ault Building; Hotel Cotton, Tulsa, 

Okla. . 
John P. Roberts, P. O. Box 246 Cambria, Wis., or P. O. 

Box 248, Columbus, Wis. 
Rev. Edwin P. Robinson, Dauphin, Pa. 
James A. Robinson, 917 Empire Building; 6209 Howe St., 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 
J. M. Roseberry, Belvidere, N. J. 

Wilber F. Rudy, Care of Dr. F. T. Rudy, Champaign, 111. 
Henry M. Russell, 206 Broadway, New York City; 384A 

Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Hon. George D. Scudder, Room 7, Damarin Block; 645 

Fourth St., Portsmouth, Ohio 
Thomas Randolph Sheets, People's Gas Building, Michigan 

Boulevard, Chicago, 111. 
Rev. L. J. Shoemaker, R. F. D. 2, Elwood City, Pa. 
Oscar A. Sloan, 695 Washington St., Monticello, Fla. 
Rev. J. A. Livingston Smith, 325 East King St., York, Pa. 
W. McB. Smith, 42 Gay Building; 5343 Maple Ave., St. 

Louis, Mo. 
M. Allen Starr, M.D., LL.D., 5 West 54th St., New York 

City 
Rev. A. Russell Stevenson, D.D., 6 Union St., Schenectady, 

N. Y. 
W. P. Stevenson, 25 Broad St., New York City; Roselle, 

N.J. 
Rev. George B. Stewart, D.D., LL.D., President's House, 
Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 



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Jordan Stokes, 631-5 Stahlman Building; 1713 West End 
Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

J. Madison Taylor, M.D., 1504 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Prof. Henry A. Todd, Ph.D., Columbia University; 824 
West End Ave., New York City 

John S. VanDike, Allentown, Monmouth Co., N. J. 

W. B. VanLennep, M.D., 142 1 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lapsley G. Walker, Chattanooga "Times" Office ; 409 Pine 
St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Rev. DeLacey Wardlaw, Bell Buckle, Tenn. 

Spencer Weart, 273 Washington St., Jersey City, N. J. ; 
New Brunswick, N. J., R. F. D. No. 6 

Hon. Rolla Wells, Federal Reserve Bank, 200 North Broad- 
way, St. Louis, Mo. 

Rev. Irving Elisha White, Cheshire, Conn. 

Hon. Wm. H. Whittlesey, Valdez, Alaska 

Rev. Prof. Robert Dick Wilson, D.D., 73 Stockton St., 
Princeton, N. J. 

Hon. Joseph M. Woods, Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa. 

Rev. Wm. H. Wolverton, "Wolverstone," Stockton, N. J. 



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